Mac (Jerry MacDonald) is the luckiest person Ari Fish knows. "Beyond lucky. Always in the right place at exactly the right time." He is the undisputed star of their under 13 soccer team. Ari want to follow in his stormjumper (wildfire fighter) older brother Sam's footsteps and make it to first string - as keeper. He is a soccer card collector and has always wanted to get a Wayne Timcoe (local hero) card. The day he finds one, his luck changes. The day he loses it, his luck changes again. Who took the card? Is it Parker, the only girl on the team? Ari recites presidents and reads horoscopes for pregame rituals. Great presidential quotes begin each chapter of this book sure to please soccer fans.
"I am a great believer in luck, and if find the harder I work the more I have of it." Thomas Jefferson
"A person who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
"Fight to the end for what is important to you."
"18 is the most important Jewish number." "Mitzvah means obligation."
"Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Mark Twain Award Preliminary Nominee 2013-14
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