Sunday, May 18, 2014

The Kicks, Saving The Team by Alex Morgan


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Comments:  Great soccer book for young girls.  I really enjoyed reading the book and so did my young daughter (10 years old).  Can't wait to read her next book, "Sabotage Season."

Book: The Kicks, Saving the Team
ISBN: 978-0-545-68911-3

Chapter 1

1. What was the name of her best friend?
2. What is the main character’s name?
3. What was the name of her little sister?
4. In what state does Devin live now?
5. What was the name of Devin’s old middle school?
6. What was the name of her old soccer team?
7. In what state does Kara live?
8. What is the name of Devin’s school?
9. Using information on page 4-5, what was Devin’s big concern?
10. When was the first day of soccer tryouts?
11. Half the U.S. women’s soccer team comes from ______________________________.
12. What was the name of her math teacher?
13. What was Devin’s last name?
14. What was Devin’s 1st period class?
15. What grade level was Algebra meant for?
16. What did Devin do during lunch to not look like a complete loser?
17. Who did Devin want to call during her lunch period?
18. What did Devin end up doing because she couldn’t call her friend?
19. Who was Kara hanging out with?
20. What sport did Devin play for P.E.?
21. Who did she meet during P.E. class?
22. Who asked Devin if she played soccer?
23. What was the name of Devin’s home city in Connecticut?
24. What is the name of the soccer team Devin is going to tryout for?
25. What is the name of the coach?
26. How many games did the Kentville Kangaroos win last year?
27. What was the nickname of the girls’ soccer team?

Chapter 2

1. Who did Kara call after school and before soccer practice?
2. What did Devin and Jessi exchange before practice?
3. Why did the girl with the neatly braided dark hair, that crisscrossed over her head like a crown, intimidated Devin?
4. Why does everyone bring up Pinewood?  Are they a good team?  Why?
5. What is the name of the rude girl in the soccer team?
6. What was the name of the girl that wasn’t trying to make the team?
7. What was Devin’s reaction/feelings after soccer tryouts?

Chapter 3

1. Who used to be “besties” with Mirabelle?
2. “Mirabelle seems to look out only for herself.”  True or False
3. In what grade did Mirabelle join a traveling soccer team?
4. Pinewood is a super expensive private school.  True or False
5. Did Mirabelle want to attend Pinewood?
6. Why didn’t Mirabelle attend Pinewood?
7. Who wouldn’t Jessi trade for all the Mirabelles on the planet?
8. What did Jessi do to make Mirabelle remember all the fun times they used to have when they were kids?
9. How did Mirabelle’s travel team react to the picture?
10. Did Mirabelle use to dress a little dorky?
11. How did Mirabelle take the picture in the backpack incident?
12. Who does Mirabelle hang out with at school?
13. Who thinks Mirabelle is bossy?
14. Who thinks the popular kids are friendly to Mirabelle because they’re afraid of her?
15. Who thinks Mirabelle is pretty rude?
16. Who is hoping to not make the soccer team?
17. Who yelled, “curses!,” because they made the team?
18. Who told the girls they all made the soccer team?
19. How many eight graders made the team?
20. How many seventh graders made the team?
21. In soccer, how many players could be on the field at a time?
22. Who wants everyone to have a chance to play?

Chapter 4

1. Why were the boys on the soccer field laughing at Devin?
2. The boys that were laughing, what type of sports’ team were they?  Example: lacrosse, football, soccer, baseball.  Use context clues to answer this question.
3. What was the boys’ name who helped Devin regarding where the girls’ soccer team practices?
4. Did Coach Flores make Devin run laps for being late to practice?
5. Who got sloppy seconds?
6. Who is a 4.0 GPA student?
7. What was brain food?
8. What did the girls’ soccer team have for goals?
9. Do you think it is fair that the boys’ soccer team is the only one allowed to practice on the soccer field?
10. Who acted like a preschool teacher?
11. Who thought Coach Flores was too nice?
12. Why were the girls surprised that after their first practice, Coach Flores told them that they have a game on Friday?
13. Who was chosen as team captain for the eight grade girls?
14. Who was chosen as seventh grade captain?

Chapter 5

1. Which team had a pep rally?
2. Who asked the girls’ soccer team to move to make room for the banner?
3. Who said, “What are we, chopped liver?”
4. Who said, “If we want to get the red carpet rolled out for our team, we’re going to have to win some games”?
5. Who said, “The boys were state champions last year; that’s major”/
6. Who watches, “The Real Teenagers of Beverly Hills”?
7. Who is the seventh-grade team captain for the boys’ soccer team?
8. Who was bored at the pep rally?
9. Who is the eight-grade captain team captain for the boys’ soccer team?
10. Which girl has a crush on Cody Taylor?
11. Which girl has a crush on Steven?

Chapter 6

1. Who broke open a big bag of M&M’s on the bus?
2. Why was Jessi sad on the bus?
3. Who did Kentville play their first soccer game against?
4. Who in Devin’s family attended the soccer game?
5. Who videotapes all of Devin’s games?
6. What is the new ritual the girls in seventh grade are doing before each game?
7. Who was upset that the Coach didn’t start some of the seventh graders?
8. Who scored the first goal?
9. Who scored the second goal?
10. What was the final score?
11. Why weren’t the girls sad after the game?

Chapter 7

1. Who is Emma?
2. Why is Devin looking for Emma’s house on the first paragraph of chapter 7?
3. Does Emma live in a mansion?
4. What is Emma’s last name?
5. Who were the ladies preparing the food for the girls?
6. Which national team were they watching on television?
7. Which two girls slid down the waterside?
8. Who was a foosball queen?
9. Who forfeited their foosball game?
10. What did Mrs. Kim offer the girls before they went to bed?
11. What is the theme of the dance?
12. Did the girls spend the night indoors or outdoors?
13. Who was the sound track?

Chapter 8

1. Who were the Kangaroos playing for their second game?
2. What strategy did Coach Flores use again that was not successful?
3. Did the Kangaroos win their second game?
4. What was the final score?
5. What were the solution the two captains came up with to help the kangaroos win?
6. What lie did Mirabelle tell the Coach to get her way regarding the lineup?
7. What was the dilemma Devin faced at the end of Chapter 8?

Chapter 9

1. Who wanted a treat for attending Devin’s soccer games?
2. Who did Devin tell her problems to?
3. What was Devin’s dad’s advice for dealing with Mirabelle’s lineup?
4. Who threw a note at Devin during English?
5. Who said that Pinewood Panthers fans seem nice?
6. Who said that the Kangaroos were like human sacrifices to the Pinewood Panthers?
7. Who said they are not normal and why?
8. Page 79, compare and contrast the campuses of Kentville and Pinewood.
9. How many fans did Pinewood have at the game?
10. Did the boys’ soccer team attend the game?
11. Who did Mirabelle want to sit for the entire game?
12. Who is in charge of subbing Emma when she messes up on the field?
13. Was the Pinewood Panthers a first-rate team?
14. Who asked if there is a mercy rule in soccer?
15. For the game against Pinewood, who was the goalkeeper for the Kangaroos?
16. Who scored a goal against their own team?
17. What was the score at half-time?
18. What was the final score?
19. Who scored the goal?
20. Who seemed to have a guilty look in her eyes at the end of chapter 9?

Chapter 10

1. Who said, “soccer is the ultimate team game.”?
2. Who doesn’t want to be Mirabelle’s puppet?
3. Who is doing last minute homework?
4. Who in the team is an overachiever?

Chapter 11

1. Who asked Zoe to dance?
2. Who danced with Matt?
3. Who danced with Devin?
4. Who danced with Cody?
5. Who said to the girls, “You losers have to wait.”?
6. Why couldn’t the girls take photos?
7. Why did the girls feel that they lost on the field when they weren’t allowed to take photos?

Chapter 12

1. What did Kara do for team bonding?
2. Why was the locker room quiet that Monday morning?
3. How did Mirabelle quit the team?
4. Why did Mirabelle quit the team?
5. Did Mirabelle talk/tell Coach Flores that she was transferring?
6. Who did Devin see/talk to after practice was cancelled? (A)
7. What did A offer Devin as they spoke in her office?
8. How did the Kentville Kangaroos get their name “the Kicks”?
9. Did Coach Flores like playing soccer when she was young?
10. Why did Coach Flores get a funny vibe from Mirabelle?
11. Did the meeting with Coach Flores and Devin go well?
12. What is Coach Flores’ first and middle name?

Chapter 13

1. Who got nominated as eight-grade captain?
2. When Coach Flores showed up to practice, she had two bags.  What did the bags have?
3. What did Coach Flores use instead of a whistle?
4. Which bag did the girls choose?
5. What did the girls learn from playing this game?

Chapter 14

1. What was Devin’s idea to help Frida with soccer?
2. What was the name of the restaurant they went Thursday Night for team bounding?
3. What was the theme of the restaurant?
4. Who always wanted to try to eat the Giant Purple People Eater?
5. In order for the team to get their names on the plaque on the wall of the restaurant, they have to finish the Giant Purple People Eater in less than ____________ minutes.
6. How many scoops of ice cream does the Purple People Eater have?
7. Did the team successfully meet the challenge?

Chapter 15

1. Why didn’t Jessi go to the restaurant?
2. What did Jessi say to Devin later that night?
3. Why did they decide to have Emma as goalie?
4. Did Emma agree to play goalie?
5. Who scored the first goal against Rancho Verdes?
6. Who scored the second goal against Rancho Verdes?
7. What was the final score?
8. Who won?
9. How many straight losses did the Kangaroos have before this tie?


Chapter 16

1. What is Jessi’s last name?
2. Devin went downstairs to offer to help Jessi with her algebra homework.  What did she tell Jessi’s mother?
3. What was the deal that Devin put together with Mrs. Dukes?

Chapter 17

1. At the beginning of the chapter, was Jessi improving in her algebra class?
2. Who was at their practice field after school with Coach Flores?
3. Why did the boys practice with the girls?
4. What was the surprise at lunch time?
5. What was the other surprise the boys’ soccer team made for the girls?
6. Who thanked Devin and said none of this would have been possible if it wasn’t for you?
7. How did Jessi do on her test?
8. Was Jessi able to rejoin the team?

Chapter 18

1. What was the pregame team-wide tradition?
2. Who was at the game that flew in to California?
3. Who scored the second goal for Pinewood?
4. Who got a yellow card?
5. What was the halftime score?
6. Who scored the first goal for the Kangaroos?
7. Who scored the second goal for the Kangaroos?
8. Who scored the fifth goal of the game?
9. Who scored the sixth goal of the game?
10. What was the final score?
11. Coach Flores was splashed with Gatorade by _______________, _________________, and several of the other eight graders.