If you want a real football hero, look at this guy. With three fabulous football stories in each book, this series should score a hat-trick with football fans aged 10 and above. So, yes, to answer your daughter’s question, I certainly was as a kid. This site has an archive of more than one thousand interviews, or five thousand book recommendations. Under Nazi occupation a Ukrainian team plays against a Nazi team. Subject. Non-fiction football books covering all aspects of the beautiful game both on and off the pitch from around the world including top ten recommendations, best sellers, new releases and football books coming soon. I hope kids won’t be put off, because as soon as you start reading, you almost forget you’re reading poetry – you just get caught up in the characters and the story.

But I found Peace's fictionalised account of Brian Clough's 44 days at Elland Road – with its imaginative use of Clough's troubled inner voice, its two time-frames running in parallel and its repetitive, Beckettian rhythms – to be viscerally exhilarating. She and her friends used to go and watch Billy Wright. by Mal Peet



An adversary, a time limit with a rising arc of tension as your heroes constantly try and fail, a moment when you think all is lost — which happens a lot with my team. You successfully shared the article. It tackles big subjects like racism, social inequality and fame – real life issues. Find the top 100 most popular items in Amazon Books Best Sellers. That’s me!’. I’m in the stands, and there’s this emotion. By Scholastic Parents Staff . Another classic better remembered as a (black and white) movie. This is one of those books I became aware of through chatting with librarians on Twitter and Instagram.

Read Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. We live in such a celebrity-obsessed world. Robbo: Now You're Gonna Believe Us. The Walter Tull Story But he didn’t. In recent years there have been some tremendous football books, but writers have, on the whole, eschewed fiction.

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The author puts in all these fantastic words, so you learn stuff, but almost by accident.

Plus, there are so many parallels with storytelling and football. It also explores celebrity and the cost of fame. Football provides a great stage – a dramatic backdrop for this”. For me, and for a lot of people I think, football is a lot to do with family. Read. If you feel you’re not very good at something, or struggle with something, you’re going to run a mile from it. The thing is that you don’t always realize how much of yourself is in a character until somebody points it out.

I’ll start with the Mal Peet.

As the title suggests, Booked is full of clever word play and it’s very subtle. Stories are all about helping us try to make sense of this crazy rollercoaster we call life. Booked I was born into it.
Respect touches on big issues: racism, war, bullying, and is written in a conversational tone, so if you’re not that confident you haven’t got to struggle with the formality of language.

They are the superheroes of the industry, really. We publish at least two new interviews per week. I think as you get older . I suppose you try to pull away a little bit.

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and young adult books, as recommended by authors, teachers, librarians and, “It tackles big subjects like racism, social inequality and fame – real life issues”.

It’s shocking to me that so few people know who he was, and why he was important, especially when you think about how famous footballers are these days. Read. Part of it is being in a stadium with thousands of other people and feeling that electricity in the air – feeling a part of something, and having something beyond the day-to-day existence. Explore this curated book list by talented African American authors and illustrators from Scholastic Librarian Deimosa Webber-Bey -- for all ages.

It’s very subtly done and beautifully written. But huge passion for football – both of them.

… The first nine choices have given the impression that football writing is exclusively a male preserve.
He kept going and paved the way for others to follow. A true story. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Sign up for our newsletter to receive all our latest news and offers In recent years there have been some tremendous football books, but writers have, on the whole, eschewed fiction. I also chose this one because it’s written in free verse, which means you are not overwhelmed by pages filled with text.

At the beginning of every January, football journalists (like me) lazily evoke the romance of the FA Cup. Age 14. Award-winning children's author and self-confessed football fanatic, Dave Cousins, recommends five fantastic football books for kids and young adults.

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