Two Balls One Goal

When Jean arrives from Haiti, everything feels new: the classroom, the language, even the way his new classmate Alex draws a football.

Jean knows football as the round ball he grew up playing with. Alex knows football as something entirely different. What begins as a simple misunderstanding becomes an opportunity for curiosity, connection, and an unexpected friendship.

Two Balls One Goal is a warm, playful children’s book about what can happen when children choose curiosity over assumption and discover that our differences don’t have to divide us..

Neither Jean nor Alex has to give up his version of football to make room for the other. Sometimes understanding begins with something as simple as asking, “What do you mean?”