Fake Out by Rich Wallace Read Free Book Online Page B

to stop if you can use both feet.
    • Sometimes the most effective pass will go backward. Find an open teammate to pass to, then move to an open spot for a return pass.
    • When playing defense, watch your opponent from the waist up instead of looking at the ball. That will tell you which direction he plans to dribble and keep you from getting faked out.

Don’t miss
Kickers #3:
Benched

    It’s a race to the Kickers soccer league play-offs. Nine-year-old Ben is pretty sure that if the Bobcats win two of their last three games, they’ll earn a tournament spot. But in their game against the Tigers, the Bobcats are a mess on the field—they’re not passing well at all—and Ben decides to take control. Someone has to win this thing, and his teammates just aren’t measuring up.
    Then the whistle blasts, the red card waves, and Ben is out—benched for dangerous moves. Not only that, he’s barred from the next game, too—a key bout against the Rabbits. How can he possibly help his team to the play-offs from the
sidelines
?
    The Kickers series, from award-winning sports novelist Rich Wallace, features nonstop soccer action, black-and-white art, and league statistics and soccer tips throughout.
    Also available:
Kickers #1:
The Ball Hogs

Kickers #4:
Game-Day Jitters

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
    Text copyright © 2010 by Rich Wallace
    Illustrations copyright © 2010 by Jimmy Holder
    All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
    Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
    Visit us on the Web! www.randomhouse.com/kids
    Educators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at www.randomhouse.com/teachers
    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wallace, Rich.
Kickers : fake out / Rich Wallace; [illustrations by Jimmy Holder]. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Nine-year-old Ben and other members of the Bobcats co-ed soccer team improve their skills and begin to win, especially after Ben learns the importance of concentration from his older brother and finally masters the fake-out.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89633-0
[1. Soccer—Fiction. 2. Teamwork (Sports)—Fiction. 3. Determination (Personality trait)—Fiction. 4. Behavior—Fiction. 5. Family life—Fiction.] I. Holder, Jimmy, ill.
II. Title. III. Title: Fake out.
PZ7.W15877Kif 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2009021350
    Random House Children’s Books supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read.
    v3.0