Soccer Chick Rules — Dawn FitzGerald

When the school district put the athletic programs on the line -- foul move, by the way -- I figured a jockette's got to stand up for something other than a pop fly.

Soccer Chick Rule Number 7: Never, ever give up! If the levy doesn't pass, there will be no buses for away games, no uniforms, no teams. Tess Munro lives for team sports. So she'll put up with the cheerleader's wacky plans for yard signs and a Halloween haunted-house fund-raiser.

Tess plans to follow her own rules for soccer chicks. But when real life doesn't offer a slam-dunk ending, Tess realizes there may be something to learn from Soccer Chick Rule Number 6: Sometimes you've got to take one for the team.

With Dawn FitzGerald's action-packed sports scenes and off-the-field drama, you'll soon be on Tess's team.