Football Stories for 7 to 9's
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ANDERSON, Scoular
The Mean Team From Mars
Black 9780713664342
Rory is football mad, but if he doesn't stop playing unfairly, he'll be sent off
the team for ever. Can a game with aliens show him a new way to enjoy his
favourite sport?
ANHOLT, Laurence
Cinderboy
Orchard Books 9781841214047
Cinderboy is crazy about football and he is devastated when his stepdad takes
his two lazy stepbrothers to the Cup Final.
BEDFORD, David
The Football Machine
Little Hare 9781877003349
Harvey's team always loses. But Professor Gertie thinks she has the
perfect solution: Mark 1, the football machine. He has a top spped of
60km/h and he is programmed to win. Will it take a football machine to
help the team win at last?
BROWNE, Anthony
Willy the Wizard
Corgi 0552549355
Willy loves football but he doesn't have any boots so he is never picked for the
team. Then one evening Willy is given a strange pair of old fashioned
football boots. Is his luck about to change?
CHILDS, Rob
Strike
Corgi 9780552550314
Jake loves football and fishing, but if he wants his brother to help him score a
hat-trick, he will have to give up fishing.
FOREMAN, Michael
Wonder Goal
Andersen Press 9781842709344
You have scored the goal of your life and there were no television cameras, no
photographers and no Dad to see it. Will you get another chance?
SMILEY, Sophie
Bobby, Charlton and the Mountain
Andersen Press 9781842701782
Bobby, a boy with Down's Syndrome is determined to impress the Queen with his
footballing skills
WADDELL, Martin
Cup Final Kid
Walker Books 9781406306194
Herbie Bazooka may be small, fat and only eight but he plays football like a
Brazilian.
