Team Fugee by Dirk McLean
Published by Lorimer on February 1st 2018
ISBN: 1459412281
Pages: 136
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Ozzie and his sister Rebecca live in the Scarborough section of Toronto in Canada with their adoptive parents. Ozzie learned to play soccer in his native Nigeria while living in an orphanage and forms a soccer team of fellow Nigerian students at his new school. The Ozzie United team must share the practice field not only with the school’s flag football team but also with another immigrant soccer team led by Victor from Syria. To drum up interest and support for an official school soccer program, the two teams are asked to play a demonstration match. The match is so successful that the teams are then asked to join forces — as Team Fugee (refugee) —  to play the regional champs. This high interest/lower reading level book is not only a great sports story but also a light story about friendship and family. Part of the Soccer United series focusing on refugee children adjusting to life in North America.

Reviewed by Karen Sandlin Silverman, Mt. Ararat Middle School, Topsham