Seventeen-year-old Leah Weiczynkowski, about to begin her senior year of high school, is on the brink of realizing her dream --playing soccer for the under-eighteen national tem, her gateway to the World Cup and the Olympics. Everything she's worked for in her life has been about this moment. She can't wait to tell her dad; her biggest fan and her faithful chauffeur to games and practices. Unfortunately, her dad, Pete Weiczynkowski, had news of his own. Cancer. Pancreatic cancer. When Leah hears her father's news, the wind is knocked out of her and a coldness seeps through her -- disbelief, sadness, anger. Not her Pops! Why her Pops? Why now? And what is she supposed to do? Now, when she has a real shot at her goal? Now, when her father is dying? Going for the Record addresses Leah's struggle with her passion for her sport, her love for her father, and her growing recognition of her father's faith and bravery. Loosely based on the author's own experience of her father dying of cancer, Going for the Record is a coming-of-age story on a number of levels, as Leah must question everything that's mattered most to her and how she will define herself in the future. Paperback, 208 pages. |
