May 2020 - Reading

This month I read a lot of Tom Palmer's books about football and I really enjoyed them all. I also read David Walliams' books - Awful Auntie and Slime and both really made me laugh.

Football Academy: Boys United

Jake Oldfield loves football but doesn't think he can join a team because he is too short for his age. He has been turned down several times. But one last try at United makes his dreams come true.

Football Academy: Striking Out

Yumis is United leading scorer so he should be at his happiest. But every time his teams wins his Dad isn't there on the touch line watching him. His dad hates football although he does have a little secret (he used to play for a football team himself!)

Football Academy: The Real Thing

Tomasz Bobik loves playing for United and he is keen stop the team captain and bully Ryan from making him feel bad about being Polish and spoiling his tournament in his home country.

Football Academy: Reading the Game

Ben is doing great at United but every day is hard for him. He has a huge secret that only his best mate Ryan knows about. It is affecting his performance at school and at football as well. Can he pluck up the courage to ask for help before he gets kicked out of the team?

Football Academy: Free Kick

James Cunningham has played for United for a long time. Everyone expects him to become a professional footballer like his Dad, but James has other ideas- he wants to be a singer! But he doesn't want to let his Dad down. He has a difficult choice to either stay on the pitch or fulfil his dreams.

Football Academy: Free Kick

The captain Ryan Flynn has grown to become a great captain since he got into trouble for bullying. But he doesn't realise that his teammate Craig has much bigger problems that he had. Ryan has to think how to keep Craig in the team and stop him from getting a red card for his attitude.

SLIME by David Walliams

Slime is a hilarious story about a boy called Ned. He lives on the isle of Mulch where all the grown-ups hate children. He goes to school and one of the school rules is: "No playing on the play ground, only standing outside in the rain". He has a sister called Jemima, who plays horrible pranks on him, especially on his birthday! She's been planning this one for ages now. Ned gets to take a bath once a year on his birthday because Jemima uses up all of the water every day. She decides if she can't have a bath, then no one can. She has been collecting lots of yucky things (boogies, belly-button fluff, green wax) and is planing to fill the bottom of the bath with thousands of jars of it! Ned finds out about the plan and uses these yucky things against his sister only to find that they created a giant friendly blob called SLIME, who helps Ned fight for children's rights.

Awful Auntie by David Walliams

Stella Saxby, aged 12, luckily survived a car crash but now she has to live with her awful auntie. Aunt Alberta is ancient and obsessed with awls. She fought in a war and stood guard in a tree when one day a great Bavarian owl came by the tree and Alberta adopted it. Stella is suspicious of her aunt, because she and her mother didn't feel very well on her way to London when they had the car crash. She believes they might have been poisoned. Aunt Alberta is desperate to get hold of the deeds for Saxby Hall so she could burn it down and turn it into an owl museum. And when Wagner, Alberta's pet awl, find out about the plan for him to be shot in his prime and stuffed to be put into a museum, he turns against his owner and helps Stella escape.