St. John, Warren.

Outcasts united : the story of a refugee soccer team that changed a town / Warren St. John. - 1st Ember ed. - New York : Ember, 2013. �2012 - 226 p. ; 22 cm.

"Adapted for young people"--Front cover.

Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011 School Library Journal starred, September 2012 School Library Journal, June 2011 Library Journal Starred, January 2009 Publisher's Weekly, April 2011 Booklist, September 2012 Horn Book, October 2011 Choice, April 2013 Kirkus Review, May 2011

American-educated Jordanian Luma Mufleh founds a youth soccer team comprised of children from Liberia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkan states, and elsewhere in the refugee settlement town of Clarkston, Georgia, bringing the children together to discover their common bonds as they adjust to life in a new homeland.

Young Adult Follett School Solutions.



9780385741958


Mufleh, Luma.


Refugees--Clarkston (Ga.)
Refugees--Africa.
Soccer coaches--Biography.

GV942.7 / .L86 2013

796.334/092