Book Guide – Review of Alex Morgan’s Breakaway: Beyond the Goal
Available on Amazon: Alex Morgan’s Breakaway: Beyond the Goal is an excellent book for everyone. It is for all ages, especially 12+.
America’s soccer darling—the youngest player to ever join the US Women’s National Team—shares her amazing story and captivates readers in her new book Breakaway: Beyond the Goal.
Alex Morgan’s uplifting memoir is easy to read and inspiring. “Enjoy Challenges—Embrace the pressure in your life. It’s there to motivate you, not to bring you down!” While this book is aimed at girls, those words inspire everyone. 
Life can be Unfair. In any competition or pursuit of any goal, things may happen that you consider flat-out wrong…. Don’t dwell on why unfair things happen because you can’t change the past—just try your best to deal with it calmly.
Morgan’s wise words are far beyond her years, and her style of writing is personal—you almost feel as if she is sitting next to you chatting about life. The book deals with important topics in a light and breezy way without diminishing the seriousness of the issues—in one simple word, it is inspiring.
Morgan’s rise to stardom did not corrupt or jade this talented young woman. In 2009, she became the youngest member of the US Women’s National Team and competed in the 2011 FIFA World Cup.
Morgan was the first overall pick in the 2011 Women’s Professional Soccer draft and landed a spot on the US Olympic women’s soccer team in 2012. At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, held in London, Morgan won her first Olympic medal, a gold, with the American team. The team beat Japan, 2–1, in a match watched live by nearly 80,300 fans—the largest soccer crowd in Olympics history. She now plays for the Portland Thorns FC in Portland, Oregon.
From her beginnings at AYSO to her role in the 2015 Women’s World Cup, Morgan shares the details that made her who she is today: a fantastic role model and athlete who proudly rocks a pink headband.
Get inspired to be your best—in sports and in life—with this uplifting memoir, which includes eight pages of full-color photos and a book jacket that doubles as a poster.
As a talented and successful female athlete, Morgan is a role model to thousands of girls who want to be their best, not just in soccer but in other sports and in life. Her story of her path to success, from playing in the 2011 Women’s World Cup to winning gold in the 2012 London Olympics to ranking as one of the National Team’s top scorers, will inspire everyone who reads it.
“Setting goals has always been so important to me in soccer, school, and all areas of my life,” Morgan says. “By sharing these stories and thoughts, I hope to inspire others to create their journey and turn their dreams into reality.”
“Alex Morgan is more than just a soccer phenom- she’s an inspiration to her young fans,” says Simon & Schuster editor Kristin Ostby. “While she makes scoring goals look easy, her story reveals the incredible amount of hard work and determination that have gotten her where she is today.”
Morgan is also the author of The Kicks, a four-book series of middle-grade novels about a girls’ soccer team. The fourth book in the series, Hat Trick, was published on June 2, 2015.
