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9-12 years
Sport
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The Bare Bum Gang and the Football Face Off
As everyone knows, a gang's den is sacred no matter how dirty, dark or smelly it may be so when the Bare Bum Gang's den is at risk they will do anything they can to save it.
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Foul Play
Danny is obsessed with two things: football and investigating crimes.
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Blood Runner
A moving and powerful story about the struggle to escape racism and oppression in Apartheid South Africa
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Seconds Out
Andy Cope’s self-worth centres on his reputation as the hardest lad in Year 10 – a reputation he frequently has to fight to maintain
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Tall Story
Engagingly told in alternate chapters by four-foot, thirteen year-old Andi, in the UK, and her eight-foot, sixteen year-old half brother Bernardo, in the Philippines
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The Boyhood of Burglar Bill
It is 1953, and in Oldbury Town there is to be a football competition. Rood End Primary enters its two best teams, but there are a few others who want to make their mark too.
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Death Match
During the occupation of Ukraine in World War II, players from what had been the Dynamo Kiev football team set themselves up as Start FC and competed in a Nazi-organised league
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Zero To Hero
An engaging tale of friendship, while at the same time raising the important issues of bullying and self confidence
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Football Academy Reading the Game
One of six titles in the Football Academy series, each featuring two young players
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Keeper
In this excellent football story, set in modern-day South America, a hackneyed football reporter sits down with El Gato (the Cat), a World Cup-winning goalkeeper, to look back on his amazing life and career.
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Dream On
Much to the disapproval of his parents, Baljit is mad on football and when he is invited to trials at Leicester City, he has to lie about his whereabouts.






