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The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers’ Edition UNA Audiobook Summary

The uplifting memoir of U.S. national soccer team goalkeeper Tim Howard, adapted for young readers.

In this heartwarming and candid account, Tim Howard opens up about how a hyperactive kid from New Jersey with Tourette Syndrome defied the odds to become one of the world’s premier goalkeepers.

Tim shares his remarkable journey in an accessible way that will speak to soccer fans, kids struggling with issues that make them feel “different,” and any young person looking for a compelling autobiography to read for a report or just for fun.

After a successful seventeen-year professional soccer career, Tim became an overnight star during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. His heroic performance in the game for the United States against Belgium, in which he saved an astonishing fifteen shots–the most for any goalkeeper in a World Cup game–made him a household name as well as a trending internet meme.

In the course of 120 minutes, Tim went from a player known mainly by soccer fans to an American icon, loved by millions for his dependability, daring, and humility.

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The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers’ Edition UNA Audiobook Narrator

William Harper is the narrator of The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers’ Edition UNA audiobook that was written by Tim Howard

Tim Howard is the goalkeeper for Everton in the English Premier League and the U.S. men's national team. He previously played for the MetroStars in Major League Soccer and for the storied Manchester United. In July 2014, he broke the record for most saves (fifteen) in a World Cup game. He also works as a soccer broadcaster on NBC's weekly coverage of the EPL.

About the Author(s) of The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers’ Edition UNA

Tim Howard is the author of The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers’ Edition UNA

Subjects

The publisher of the The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers’ Edition UNA is HarperCollins. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Juvenile Nonfiction, Sports & Recreation

Additional info

The publisher of the The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers’ Edition UNA is HarperCollins. The imprint is HarperCollins. It is supplied by HarperCollins. The ISBN-13 is 9780062392251.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Isaac

April 26, 2018

This book is a very good book for people who like soccer.

Lisa

December 15, 2018

Audiobook: I listened to this after my 10 yr old son loved it and asked me to read it. Tim, you’re an inspiration to our soccer youth! We hope to meet you this season! Thanks for sharing your story. A true role model. There’s a Howard jersey under the tree for my son this year!

Kim

February 17, 2021

Tim Howard’s story is inspirational!

Hector

March 19, 2019

I loved reading this book because in a way it's sort of an underdog story from someone having Tourette Syndrome. Reading this would make you wonder how life would play out because for Tim’s coach was scouted to be coach of a professional team. This would later turn to him being a professional athlete that was heading to be a hall of famer. Reading about his ups and downs really makes the reader wants to read more. He doesn’t really into full detained of his childhood and why he decides to play soccer other than basketball. That’s one thing I didn’t enjoyed reading because he just skips to playing soccer to being professional soccer.

Divson

October 19, 2015

The Keeper (the unguarded story of Tim Howard) is an amazing book. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it. It is very inspirational and shows how he fights. It was a great book and I hope you read it!

Hunter

March 30, 2015

I think it was an inspiering story about soccer and I hope you will read it

Noah

December 11, 2017

Goodreads Review, By Noah LevineThe Keeper The Unguarded Story Of Tim Howard, by Ali Benjamin has a theme of you can accomplish anything with hard work. I think this because in the story, Tim Howard starts out as a little boy in a poor family but since he worked and achieved his goals and did not give up, he succeeded and became wealthy. I think the author would want us to get the idea of that we can succeed like Tim Howard did because the book was all about Tim Howard accomplishing his goals. This compares to the real world because if someone follows their goals and they work hard, they can accomplish anything and the book did a good job explaining that for Tim Howard. This book is about Tim Howard following his dreams of being a famous soccer player but to become that, he has to overcome some obstacles. The genre is non-fiction because this book is biography about Tim Howard. The setting occurs in his house and the fields he plays soccer on like his club, college and professional fields. The action occurred on page 157, chapter 16 when Tim Howard played great in his first professional soccer game. I think the author does not do a good job of making me feel like I am there because he doesn’t use much detail and everything is about Tim Howard. The main characters are believable because this book is nonfiction and all about real characters like Tim Howard because it is a biography on him. The books strengths were the detail on Tim Howard's journey in his goal to becoming a professional soccer player. The weaknesses of this book were the transitions and adding detail during the transitions like when he is at soccer practice and the next page or chapter he is at his house or college. He should add his setting between his transitions and more detail. In the book he was at his house and the next page he was at one of his soccer games. I like the vocabulary the author uses to describe Tim Howard’s journey to becoming a famous soccer player. For example on page 80 it states, “I became the starting goalkeeper for the MetroStars.” This shows that he is getting better and he got his first start. I would recommend this book because it has great detail and it was well written. I would recommend this book to people who like soccer and books that like books that have a journey to becoming what the character wanted to be because that is what this book is all about.

Kai

October 15, 2017

This book is a great autobiography about soccer player Tim Howard. He does a great job of including facts about himself and opinions. In this book it tells about himself and how he became a goalie. The book is a great way to learn about Tim Howard and soccer. It teaches you how to never give up and always chase your dreams.

Leo

October 15, 2018

I liked the book a lot actually because Iv'e always liked Tim Howard as keeper, but I didn't know this much about him. I learned a lot from the book, but I also felt like I was watching the game that he described. I think he did a good job at telling what he was feeling without his kids and all the grinding and trips.

Mikulas

January 14, 2020

This book really realatable to me because Im also a keeper myself and the book really talks about things that a keeper would deal with. This book is greatly made and Im very happy with it. I wish every keeper should read this book. Its written at a great pace for his life and I love this personal narrative very much. I greatly recomend it

Joyce

February 10, 2019

Great story following the ups and downs of his life. Discussion around the many sacrifices, challenges and impact on him when he playing professional soccer. A solid read for middle school grades learning about different styles of learning and benefits of a life long mentor. Tim did a great job acknowledging the many suppo6both personally and professionally throughout his life.

Mohamed

January 25, 2023

You might say Tim was ordinary keeper, but every man has a history to tell

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