Necessary Roughness Author:Marie G. Lee Chan Jung Kim has always been popular. But that was when he lived in L.A. and was the star of his soccer team. Now his familys movedto a tiny town in Minnesota, where footballs the name of the game and nobody has ever seen an Asian American family before. Desperate to fit in, Chan throws himself into the gamebut he fee... more »ls like an outsider. For the first time in his life, he finds himself thinking about what it really means to be Koreanand what is really important. By turns gripping, painful, funny, and illuminating, Necessary Roughness introduces a major new talent and a fresh young voice to the Harper list. 1997 Best Books for the Teen Age (NY Public Library)