
By Chika Unigwe, Chinyere Okoroafor (Illustrator)
A young football star in a wheelchair finds new friends and a team in a new city.
Obioma, a spirited 9-year-old football star, faces a new city and school where she's labeled as 'the girl with the wheelchair.' Missing her favorite sport, she feels isolated until Ayana challenges her to a race. This unexpected friendship sparks a football revival, drawing in classmates and forming a new team. Can Obioma overcome the challenges of her new environment and prove that her spirit is unstoppable?
9 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no friends, and everyone calls her “the girl with the wheelchair”. Obioma misses playing football most of all, until one day a girl named Ayana asks her to race. Once they start playing football, everyone joins in and Obioma finds a new team to play with!
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