Venus and the Comets

by Erika Tamar

Overview

Nine-year-old Venus Macquire is ready to trade smiling for the camera for nailing a soccer ball into the net. Her mother isn't thrilled. She's been grooming Venus for supermodel status since her daughter was three. Everyone at school knows about Venus's famous commercials, and some of the girls on the soccer squad don't think she's cut out for athletic competition. Thing is, Venus is a soccer natural—and she almost has her team convinced. When she's scheduled to be the Cinderella doll at a toy store grand opening, the would-be soccer star has to show everyone, even herself, that her real goal is not to be special. It's to be the real Venus—a regular kid, with a kick!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467731423
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	7 - 9 Years

Table of Contents

Chapter 1	Soccer Barbie	5
Chapter 2	Dribbling, Drooling, or Worse	13
Chapter 3	Power Kick	23
Chapter 4	Teammate Talk	31
Chapter 5	Stealing the Ball	37
Chapter 6	A Friend	43
Chapter 7	Spoiled Brat	51
Chapter 8	The Terrible Js	59
Chapter 9	Making the Cut	65
Chapter 10	Warm-ups	73
Chapter 11	The Smashers	79
Chapter 12	The Second Half	85

Editorial Reviews

Venus Maguire, aging child model, longs for something more. Her commercials for diapers and baby products still air on television, but at age nine, she’s getting a little too old for these roles. Her stage mother has indulged her tantrums and pouting over the years, because she wants her daughter to be even more famous than she was as Miss Texas Oil pageant. Now she really doesn’t want Venus to spoil her looks while playing soccer. Chock full of cardboard caricatures: Venus with her sparkly crown and advanced knowledge of make up, the striving mother, and the jealous trio of mean girls who thwart Venus as she tries her feet at soccer, this has little to recommend it. While there is a dearth of good sports books for young girls, this effort, with predictable plot--was there any question that Venus would find herself and new friends on the field?--and choppy writing, misses the goal. (Fiction. 7-9)

Kirkus Reviews