Title: Going For the Record                                                          

Author: Julie A. Swanson                                  

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Pages: 217

         The summer before her senior year of high school Leah Weiczynkowski qualifies for the Olympic developmental program's regional soccer team. She has every reason to believe she will be picked by coaches from the best college teams in the country. But the very day she returns home from soccer camp, she learns that her father has untreatable pancreatic cancer.

Why is this such a great book?

It’s a great book because it explains a certain kind of challenge in life and how a girl in high school would go through all of this. And why and how family is so important.