A boy, an alien and football - a match made in heaven for soccer fans aged 7-10! Laugh-out-loud funny!Eleven-year-old Charlie Spruit can't believe his luck when he opens his door to an alien one morning. Who is he? Why has he come? Charlie soon discovers that this alien has run away from space to Earth to be with him because he's soccer mad and the World Cup is on...! 'Eeek, ' as Charlie decides to call him, takes up secret residence in Charlie's bedroom where he sleeps on the ceiling by night and pores over Charlie's football magazines and stickers by day. All is going surprisingly well until slimy sci-fi mad Sid Spiker, who lives out the back, spots Eeek through his telescope. Sid has his own plans for this alien, which bring surprises that no-one could have imagined...

 

. This book is part of a HiLo reading scheme, combining high interest relative to the required reading skill.

There are 110 pages in this book. This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 2012 by Well Said Press .

Karen Inglis is children's author living in London in the UK. She's been writing ever since she was little and still has a box of her daily diaries hidden in a cupboard. Karen is a big dreamer and thinker and loves taking young readers into worlds where literally anything can happen. like magical time tunnels that take you to meet children in the past, or soccer-mad aliens zooming down from space to hide in your bedroom and watch the World Cup, or library books that suck you down into the story, or magic hats and talking cats. She also writes in rhyme about Ferdinand Fox - a kind town fox that she once met. Karen loves going into schools and meeting her fans - she also does Skype visits to schools abroad: ) Check out her website below if you're interested to find out more. Almost 7, 000 children have now enjoyed Tom and Stella's magical adventure in Karen's time travel adventure The Secret Lake - we hope you are or will become one of them! You can find out more about Karen and sign up for news and special offers at her website >> www. kareninglisauthor. com