Football School is exactly what soccer fans of the Horrible Histories series have been waiting for – a book dedicated to the most widely played sport in the world, containing the answers to every possible football-related question. These include (but are no means limited to), when do footballers poo and can you play football on Mars?
Thirteen-year-old Nick Hall is a talented and enthusiastic soccer player, with a best friend Coby, and supportive parents. It is unusual for soccer to feature in a book set in the US, but this is only one of several unusual aspects to this book.
In At The Deep End, originally published in a different form as In Deep Water in 1993, focuses on Ben, a boy who has agreed to swim the first hundred lengths of a ‘Swimathon’, largely to impress two boys he aspires to be friends with, Jack and Harry. When they don’t show up for their share of swimming, he is faced with giving up or continuing on his own.
