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? Helena Pielichaty's first book, "Simone's Letters", was nominated for the Carnegie Medal.

 

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Oxford University Press .

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.