Carmen is a 12-year-old star striker for the Blue Dragons A Team, but
when her best friend Destiny abandons the team to try theater, the
Dragons need a new goalkeeper, stat. Carmen quickly learns her new
position as keeper, but she struggles to deal with the changes in her
friendship with Destiny. Plus, there's one shot she just can't seem to
stop. Now, the league championship has gone to a shootout, and of course
the other team's best striker has the last kick. Can Carmen save both
her team's championship dreams and her most important friendship? In the
Clutch hooks readers with a do-or-die moment from youth sports, then
rewinds to show how the books' young athletes found themselves needing
to perform under pressure.