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    Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Soccer Mania
    Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Soccer Mania
    Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Soccer Mania
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    Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Soccer Mania

    By Jane O'Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser

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    Nancy Clancy hits the soccer field in New York Times bestselling team Jane O’Connor and Robin Preiss Glasser’s sixth Nancy Clancy chapter book.

    Normally, Nancy doesn’t like dressing like everyone else. But wearing a soccer team uniform—well, that’s different!

    Nancy adores being on the Green Goblins. She loves cheering for her teammates, sharing refreshments, and painting her fingernails bright green before every game. If only she wasn’t cursed with slow legs! All Nancy wants is to be mediocre—or maybe even a little better than average. Will she reach her goal?

    Written with plenty of humor and sports action, this story is perfect for kids like Nancy who aren’t the stars of their teams.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9780062269683
    Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Soccer Mania
    Author

    Jane O'Connor

    Jane O’Connor is an editor at a major publishing house who has written more than seventy books for children, including the New York Times bestselling Fancy Nancy series. She resides (that’s fancy for lives) with her family in New York City.

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      Another wonderful book from the Nancy Clancy series! All the characters are delightful and the lessons in vocabulary are fantastic!

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    Fancy Nancy - Jane O'Connor

    DEDICATION

    To Coach Adam, Nora, Zoe,

    and all the other Green Goblins of Brooklyn.

    From your biggest cheerleader!

    —J.O’C.

    To Will and Alex—

    who are great sports and great at sports!

    —R.P.G.

    CONTENTS

    DEDICATION

    CHAPTER 1: NANCY’S GOAL

    CHAPTER 2: ALMOST A SPORTS INJURY

    CHAPTER 3: DRIBBLING

    CHAPTER 4: J-J-JITTERS

    CHAPTER 5: EARLY-MORNING MANICURES

    CHAPTER 6: THE HORNETS ATTACK!

    CHAPTER 7: CHEERLEADING

    CHAPTER 8: ANOTHER SPORTS INJURY

    CHAPTER 9: ALMOST HALLOWEEN

    CHAPTER 10: SEASON FINALE

    CHAPTER 11: TWO MORE SPORTS INJURIES

    BACK AD

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR

    CREDITS

    COPYRIGHT

    ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

    Soccer practice had just ended.

    All I want is to be mediocre, Nancy told Bree. Mediocre meant being average, or in the middle. That’s not asking much. I’ll never be great. But I hate being terrible. Nancy sighed. Mediocre. That’s my goal.

    "You are mediocre, Bree assured her. Then she said in a whisper, Clara is way worse than you. So is Yoko. So is Tamar. Well— Bree stopped to think about that some more. Actually, you and Tamar are tied." That was one of the superb things about Bree. Nancy could always count on her best friend to be completely honest.

    No, Bree, Grace butted in. Nancy is worse than Tamar.

    Nancy could always count on Grace to listen in on private conversations. It was like her ears had superpowers!

    Nancy, face it. You can’t dribble. You don’t have any control of the ball. And you get so scared whenever somebody kicks it to you. You’re like— Grace put her hands in front of her face and trembled as if she were watching a horror movie. And you’re scared of falling. Look how clean you are!

    Grace’s T-shirt and shorts were covered in grass stains. Nancy’s were spotless.

    Grace was right. But the way she pointed out stuff wasn’t the same as how Bree did.

    You and I are tied for best on the team, Grace said to Bree. Their team was called the Green Goblins. Then come Rhonda and Wanda. But neither of them can intercept like you.

    Intercept meant getting the ball away from a player on the other team. It was amazing, astounding, almost superhuman how speedy Bree was. Nancy’s dad, who was their coach, called her Bolt. That was short for Lightning Bolt, because Bree could dribble fast with the ball and zigzag in between other players.

    I can’t wait for our first game, Grace went on. It was on Saturday, only three days away. Bree, you and I are going to rule! Then they all reached into a bowl of oranges that were cut into quarters. Refreshments were Nancy’s favorite part of soccer. When Bree and Nancy finished sucking out the juice, they smiled widely. The orange peels were still

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