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Llama United are the football team with a World Cup dream!Llama United has gone from strength to strength after their first Cup win, gaining fame and fortune along the way. Sadly the England football team is not having the same success and, with the World Cup looming, their manager is desperate to find a magic ingredient to beat their bitter rivals. Friends (and llama managers) Tim and Cairo have just that ingredient and agree to loan some of Llama United's top players. But not everything is...

A thirteen-year-old American girl plays on a fiercely competitive boy's soccer team during the year her family spends in Italy and experiences culture clashes both on and off the field.

Favorite author Nancy Carlson tackles the age-old problem of bullying The lovable Henry is back--and he's being bullied on the soccer field at school! When no one's advice seems to help, it's up to Henry to solve his bully problem for himself. Classroom favorite Nancy Carlson encourages young readers to use creativity and empathy to deal with one of childhood's toughest challenges.

Bloomsbury High Low books encourage and support reading practice by providing gripping, age-appropriate stories for struggling and reluctant readers, those with dyslexia, or those with English as an additional language. Printed on tinted paper and with a dyslexia friendly font and illustrations, The Football Trials is aimed at readers aged 12+ and has a manageable length (80 pages) and reading age (9+). Produced in association with reading experts at Catch Up, a charity which aims to address und...

Mister Wolf challenges Preston to a game of football. But will Mister Wolf be able to equal Preston's world-class football skills? There's a different football move on every spread in this simple, action-packed toddler book.

"Josh can play footy. He's fast and fleet-footed and a blur down the sideline. But every time he steps onto the field, a stampede of elephant-sized butterflies invade his stomach and he fumbles the ball. Having his footy-mad grandad screaming from the sidelines doesn't help. To top it off, he blows an easy try and loses his team the opening game of the season. Josh starts thinking about giving up football forever. That is, until NRL legend and Josh's hero, Billy Slater, turns up at training one...

Aunt Karen is taking over Lucy's life-what's left of it. Lucy is a feisty, precocious tomboy who questions everything-even God. It's not hard to see why: a horrible accident killed her mother and blinded her father, turning her life upside down. It will take a strong but gentle housekeeper-who insists on Bible study along with homework-to show Lucy that there are many ways to become the woman God intends her to be. Lucy is faced with her toughest obstacles yet in her quest to find out just wha...

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the global smash hit film! If you're 18, love football and can bend a ball like Beckham, the world must be your oyster, right? Wrong. If you're Jess - 18, Indian and a girl - forget it.Jess just wants to play football but her wedding-obsessed parents have other ideas so she hides it from them. But when Jess and her friend Jules join a ladies team and get spotted by a talent scout, it all kicks off ... The Bend it Like Beckham movie was a box-office hit, starri...

Jimmy, from the Riverside Boys U-15 soccer team, is getting a little older and sets off on a new career.

The good news: Mad Victor and Mad Henry are back from Birmingham. The bad news: They've nowhere to stay. The Irish soccer team must come up with a solution to keep the team together.

In the third Riverside adventure, the boys have moved into the big time. They''re playing in the City Slickers - Dublin Schoolboys - League, and they''ve solved their travel problems - Mr Glynn has bought a minibus.'

The Tigers are facing a difficult away match against a tough team, but they have got the special help of their ghost goalie or have they? Things look bad when an old opponent arrives - intent on revenge!

Hatton Rangers's new golden boy, Nat Dixon is still basking in the glow of his dramatic end to the last Premier League season when the team are invited to play in a mini-tournament in Spain. Nat is still on edge trying to hide the truth about his age from his team-mates and the outside world, especially when he fears it might have been leaked. And he soon discovers that his host family in Spain are covering up a secret of their own. Can Nat get to the bottom of it before something disastrous hap...

A humorous look at the history of soccer, from Cro-Magnon United to Tudor Academicals, with time-travelling tips on how to outwit Genghis Khan in the midfield, what happened when the Egyptians played with the Romans, and the truth about Scot of the Antarctic. Illustrated in black and white.

Mick Ryall is an indispensable player in the Angels'' team but he can''t play without his glasses. When the Hamley Hawks steal his glasses the whole team rallies round to save the day.'