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Outcasts United The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town

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ISBN-10: 0385741944

ISBN-13: 9780385741941

Edition: 2012

Authors: Warren St. John

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The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American townClarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston’s streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to unify Clarkston’s refugee children and keep them off…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 9/11/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748

Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Warren St John is currently a reporter for the New York Times. He has also written extensively for The New Yorker, the New York Observer and Wired. He studied at Columbia University and lives in New York.

Introduction
Changes
Luma
Beatrice and Her Boys
"Small Town… Big Heart"
Alone Down South
The Fugees Are Born
"Coach Says It's Not Good"
Get Lost
A New Season
"I Want to Be Part of the Fugees!"
Figure It Out So You Can Fix It
Meltdown
"How Am I Going to Start All Over?"
Alex, Bien, and Ive
Trying Again
The Fifteens Fight
Go Fugees!
Gunshots
The "Soccer People"
Playing on Grass
Full Circle
Who Are the Kings?
Showdown at Blue Springs
Coming Apart
Hanging On at Home
The Dikoris
"What Are You Doing Here?"
Halloween
The Fifteens' Final Game
My Rules, My Way
Tornado Cup
Epilogue
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