When Danny moves to the countryside the only good thing to come out of it is that he might have a chance at getting picked for the school football team. Danny loves football. He eats, breathes, and sleeps football. But will the other kids at his new school want to be friends with him? And, will they want him in their team? * Author's first book, Simone's Letters, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. * Exciting football story which also tells of the difficulty of being the new kid in school. * Football stories are popular at this age range and this story fits in with several other football stories published by OUP. * An exciting author who is getting more well-known in the trade. * Cover and inside illustrated by Smarties winner, Sue Heap.

 

There are 124 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Oxford University Press .

His friend Sue Heap won a Smarties Prize for Cowboy Baby. She lives in Chipping Norton. Helena Pielichaty (pronounced Pierre-li-hatty) has written over thirty books for children. Her latest series, Girls FC, is set around a fictional girls' football team so she was delighted to be asked to write her first non-fiction book for HarperCollins on a subject close to her heart. Helena's auntie played women's football in the 1950s and her daughter played from the age of 9 to 26. Helena herself has never played football but was an enthusiastic, if inept, wing defence on her school netball team.