A teacher on exchange from England is placed in an underachieving Texas school, where she coaches the students in soccer, improving their self-esteem and leading to unexpected success.

An underdog sports team of misfit kids learns to play a new sport and become champions while building self-esteem, making friends, and solving a variety of dramatic family crises through the able assistance of a foreign exchange teacher and former local sports hero as coaches.—Brian Fries <[email protected]>