A timely and thought-provoking football story packed with facts, from reluctant-reader favourite Alan Gibbons.
Sam's team are edging closer to the bottom of the league this season and team captain Jordan's bad attitude isn't helping anyone. When Sam spots Hasan playing on the refugee team, he can see that Hasan's got talent and invites him along to practice. Hasan and his friend Faisal prove to be exactly what the team need – but Jordan's not going to accept his new teammates so easily. Can Sam get the boys to pull together and win?
This is Book 5 in the Football Fiction and Facts Series. See all Football Fiction and Facts books here.
He was there again – the boy Sam had seen before.
Alan Gibbons' other titles include "Charles Darwin" and "Shadow of the Minotaur," for which he won" "the Blue Peter Book Award. He has also been short-listed twice for the Carnegie Medal.
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