Leo is the star striker for the Tigers football team, who are teetering on the edge of relegation from the top division. As the season comes to an end, he must contend with an ankle injury, a selfish rival striker, and pressure of taking game-winning penalty kicks. Can he help the Tigers avoid relegation? Can the Tigers finish in the top eight to compete for the Cup?
The popular Football Heroes series has expanded to include legends of the game, and this book focuses on Irish hero Paul McGrath.
Inspired by the author’s own childhood move from Guyana to Canada, this book is a gentle and heartfelt picturebook about Amina, a young girl adjusting to life in a snowy new city. The book’s title references the Caribbean song Brown Girl in the Ring, a song readers return to again and again throughout the book.
Mae and her cat, Tiger, spend their days exploring their backyard garden ‘jungle’, playing and sharing every moment together. Their bond is full of joy and adventure … until the day Tiger is gone.
Watts and Whiskerton are best friends and budding detectives. In their second adventure, they investigate accusations of sabotage at the village fete’s cake bake. Who caused the cake batter to flood the tent? And what was the real motive behind it?
Every year, the town of Stemville is transformed into a Formula 1 racetrack. This story follows the fortunes of Frankie Thunderfoot, a hare, and Wilbur Hardshell, a tortoise, as they compete to earn a place on the finishing podium. The story balances Frankie and Wilbur’s rivalry with a sense of fun and healthy competition, never losing sight of the importance of friendship and enjoying the journey.
Narrated by Earth – the ‘little blue dot’ itself – we hear the reasons why each of its planetary friends are so special. With the help of those planets and the humans living on Earth itself, Earth comes to realise that it is special too.
This book is an enjoyable guide to sport that takes young readers on a journey exploring over one hundred different types of sports. It covers a range of activities, including ball sports, athletics, water sports, and gymnastics. This large hardback book bursts with colour on every page, filled with dynamic illustrations.
Set against the backdrop of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, readers follow the journey of Luki, an indigenous girl from the Philippines. We begin with Luki’s sheltered tribal life in the mountains, before following her journey to America (with hundreds of other natives) to attend the St. Louis World’s Fair.
Incredible Football takes the reader through sixty engaging true stories about the world of football, covering facts and stats about the world’s best players and teams.
