Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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Rob Childs

Danebridge School football team are through to the Cup Final and Andrew Weston, who plays in a key position in defence, can hardly wait for the big day. It's going to be the most important match of the whole year. His younger brother Chris is in on the action too, picked to be the team's substitute goalkeeper. 
 
But the Weston brothers suddenly discover that they have a big problem. For the match clashes with an important family occasion - and their mother insists that they must drop out of the match! What can they do? They can't possibly miss the Final...

The Big Day

Tony Bradman

Tenn Top-Scoring Soccer Stories 
 
Take a grandstand seat for some great soccer action: 
- a barefoot boy who beats the odds and amazes everyone with his stunning skills; 
- a goalie called Titch, who proves height isn't everything when it comes to saving goals; 
- the one and only Harry Jackson, determined to be the best referee ever. 
 
Tony Bradman has collected ten brand-new, action-packed tales for this terrific collection of never-before-published football stories from a team of top children's authors such as Rob Childs, Nick Warburton, and Geraldine McCaughrean. All the fun, the drama, the action and excitement of the football field is here, so kick off inot the world of football fever!

Football Fever

Jonty's father is the Red Fox - a superstar in the pop world. And now Jonty's dad is helping the young footballers of Great Catesby Primary School in recording a special football song: Come on, you Greats! 
 
The third tale about Tom, Jonty and their friends in the school football team.

Great Hit

Theo Walcott

TJ's friend Jamie is the heart and soul of the Parkview football team, but although he's a great tackler his passes are dangerously random - and he can't resist the stodgy food that his mum and the school cook love to tempt him with. Jamie becomes so unfit that Mr Wood drops him from the team, so his friends and their parents organize a World Food and Football day to try and change his eating habits - and to impress the Inspectors who seem to think Parkview is not a very good school. Jamie works really hard to get fit, and finally regains his place in the team, but only when he accepts his true vocation as a goalie.

T.J. and the Penalty

Paul May

"THEY'LL PULVERIZE US!" 
 
Fizz and her mates at Hillside Primary love playing football - but the school team's first match is against the Church Street gang (mean, nasty and horrible - and that's how they play their football too). That's when their teacher decides Smithy gets the job of goalkeeper - a position Smithy HATES. Now they've got to play against the roughest bunch ever, with a goalie who doesn't want to be there. Can Fizz and Smithy team up to beat the Church Street team?

Nice One Smithy!

Anthony Browne

Willy the chimp loves football and dreams of being a star player. 
But he doesn't have any boots so he's never been picked for the team. 
Then, one evening, Willy meets a mysterious stranger and his luck begins to change . . .

Willy The Wizard

TJ and his friends get a terrible shock when their old teacher, Mr Potter, returns from illness to take over from Mr Wood as PE teacher at Parkview School. Worse still, they are about to play in the semifinal of the Cup, and Mr Potter's really bad tactics nearly lose them the match. 
 
With everything they've trained for hanging in the balance, can TJ and his friends turn things around and win?

T.J. and the Cup Run

Bear Grylls

How did Bear Grylls become one of the world's toughest adventurers? 
 
This is the thrilling story of everyone's favourite real-life action man - from secret childhood missions to climb the town's school buildings and steeples, to starring in his own global TV series and becoming Chief Scout to the Scouting Association. 
 
Known and admired by millions, Bear Grylls has survived in dangerous environments few would dare to visit. Find out what it's like to take on mountaineering, martial arts, parachuting, life in the SAS - and all that nature can throw at you! 
 
Abridged for younger readers.

Mud, Sweat and Tears Junior Edition

Sometimes - to survive - you have to FIGHT! 
 
Each year, City FC - known as 'the Hawks' - take on a group of thirteen-year-olds for the first tier of their special soccer school: training sessions in the evenings and weekends for truly talented players who are aiming to become professional players. It's a glamorous, exciting future for the few who succeed - with huge rewards. But the failure rate is also high - BAD BOYS, the second in the series, highlights a conflict between two players who want to play in the same position: Ben, who wants to be accepted as 'one of the lads', even if it means behaving badly; and Lee, who fights to make his own decisions, only to realize he's made the wrong choices...

Bad Boys

Pep times his move with instinctive perfection. Suddenly, he's back on the ball, and the defenders realize (too late, because they're committed now) that he never really left: it was all an illusion. And then he's over the ball, collecting it with his right instep, to banana it over the heads of both defenders, and way beyond the reach of the late-diving keeper... 
 
Football Fever 3 contains ten brand new soccer stories from a team of top authors including Rob Childs, Narinder Dhami and Tony Bradman. 
 
As well as Pep, join the rest of the squad - midfielder Andy who has a chance to impress the soccer scouts, if only his father will allow him to play; Dekko, captain of the Hilljoy team, the roughest, toughest team to run out on to a football pitch, striker Jonno, who gets a brilliant idea of how to lift his team from bottom of the league, and many others.

Football Fever 3

TJ is a new boy at Parkview School and he's never played in a proper football match before, but he soon makes friends with a bunch of football-mad kids.The trouble is, none of the teachers at Parkview are interested in football and the kids have nowhere to play - until Mr Wood arrives. With Mr Wood's help - and with the assistance of Mr Wood's old friend, Marshall Jones, a Premier League footballer - the kids and their parents mend their pitch, begin to put together a brilliant football team, and start to turn the school into a place to be proud of.

T.J. and the Hat-trick

Each year, City FC - known as 'the Hawks' - take on a group of thirteen-year-olds for the first tier of their special soccer school: training sessions in the evenings and weekends for truly talented players who are aiming to become professional players.  It's a real step towards being a real man - and to a glamorous, exciting future for the few who succeed. But the failure rate is also high...  UNDER PRESSURE introduces readers to one group, and in particular to Craig, whose dad sees his son's potential as a real money-spinner, and Darren, who is under pressure to succeed.

Under Pressure

'WHO WANTS TO WATCH OTHER PEOPLE SCORE ALL THE GOALS?' 
 
Chris is a goalscorer - but his life is a mess. He's falling out with everyone: his dad, his teachers, even his best mate. The only thing that akes him feel good is banging the ball into the back of the net. He certainly doesn't want to play in defence - even if his school team does need defenders. 
 
Ian Rawson is Chris's new neighbour. An ex-Premier League defender, he's absolute magic on the pitch, in total control of the game . . . 
 
When Chris sees Ian play, he starts to wonder. Has he got it all wrong about defenders? And if he changes his mind, will there still be a place for him in the team?

Defenders

The Parkview team are off to compete in the Regional Championship tournament, but their striker is in trouble. The team is improving all the time, but Tulsi, once the star, is getting left behind. When she's dropped from both the school team and her Sunday League team, she even talks about giving up football. 
 
Can TJ and the team help Tulsi change her ways and win her place back in the team?

T.J. and the Winning Goal

Every year, in the county of Medland, school football teams compete for the most prestigious trophy in the area - the County Cup.  Round-robin tournaments determine the winners of the four Quarter Shields - in the North, the East, the South and the West and the winners then clash in the semi-finals and then the Finals.  The first four books in this series detail the teams in each quarter, battling it out to win a place in the semi-finals. The winning teams - and characters - can then be followed through the series in subsequent titles.

County Cup (2): Cup Rivals

The Quarter Champions of the North and the West are about to clash in the two-legged, semi-finals of the County Cup - the trophy every player wants to lift!  Who will win through to the Final?  Join the Cup trail and follow all the drama and excitement - both on and off the pitch.

County Cup (6): Cup Fever

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