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Ten Thousand Tries
Amy Makechnie
Ages: 9+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Atheneum/Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-5344-8229-6
Keywords: loss, friendship, leadership, acceptance, growth, soccer, ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, Father/son, mother/son, family
As Golden copes with his father's ALS disease, his friend moving, and his goals as a soccer player, he accepts that he can't control everything.