In The Comeback, the second book in the middle-grade trilogy, soccer star Teresa Rodriguez, now 13, is still striving for her first soccer championship, but her life now is even more complicated. She struggles with family responsibility; her best friend, Gabby, being shipped to a foster home; and the uncertainty about whether her father will ever return home. Meanwhile, once the season starts, Teresa is the captain as the middle-school Tornadoes tear through the league and Teresa shines. When Teresa's team faces racism on the field, this time she knows how to deal with it. In the end, Teresa may face Gabby in the championship game. How she and Gabby handle this will be the best lesson in friendship either could learn - and may put a new spin on how you define victory.
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Peter Aronson is a former legal affairs journalist, a former attorney in New York City, and now he writes children's books (www.peteraronsonbooks.com) and short stories.
His first two middle-grade books were part of his Groundbreaker Series, about extraordinary individuals doing extraordinary things: BRONISLAW HUBERMAN: FROM CHILD PRODIGY TO HERO, THE VIOLINIST WHO SAVED JEWISH MUSICIANS FROM THE HOLOCAUST was published in 2018. JEANNETTE RANKIN: AMERICA'S FIRST CONGRESSWOMAN was published in 2019.
Aronson's middle-grade novel, MANDALAY HAWK'S DILEMMA: THE UNITED STATES OF ANTHROPOCENE, about young teens fighting global warming, was published in 2021.
Kirkus Reviews called it: "A scathing work and an essential blueprint for youth battling climate change."
In 2025, Aronson published his middle-grade soccer trilogy, a series of novels about Teresa Rodriguez, a young teen who learns about life on and off the field when her father is suddenly deported and she must juggle family responsibility, team leadership, friendships and her love for the game. The books, COUNTERATTACK, THE COMEBACK and THE LAST CHANCE, are a young teen's saga for our complex and troubled times.
For more information about Aronson's books: See www.peteraronsonbooks.com
or email peteraronsonbooks@gmail.com