Spider McDrew gets the chance to play for the Parkfield school football team, in the end-of-season cup draw. As usual though, things are not plain sailing for Spider who lets his side down by giving away a crucial penalty kick. Poor Spider is a pitiful sight as he stands on the touchline all alone. Then, he is asked to take one last corner kick.

* Topaz/ Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.

* Text type - A humorous story with a familiar setting.

* A reader response page provides lots of opportunities for speaking and listening and scaffolding writing.

* Curriculum links - ICT: Combining text and graphics; PSHE: Developing good relationships.

* This is the second SpiderMcDrew tale by Alan Durant and Philip Hopman.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Topaz Series .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Jostein Gaarder wrote one of the great bestsellers of the nineties in SOPHIE'S WORLD, which has sold over 16 million copies in nearly 50 languages. He is Norwegian and lives in Oslo with his wife and two teenage sons. Philip Hopman is Dutch and has illustrated many books for children. Alan Durant is the author of books for a wide age-range, from picture books such as Burger Boy to top-end teenage thrillers. He also writes prize-winning poetry. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.