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#1 New York Times Bestseller From the mind of basketball legend,
Academy Award-winning, and New York Times-bestselling storyteller
Kobe Bryant comes a new tale of finding your strength against all
odds. Set in an alternate classical world dominated by sports and a
magical power called grana, Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof is the story
of two children: the lowly born Rovi and the crown princess Pretia
who uncover and battle terrible evil and discover their inner
strength along the way. Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof takes place at the
most elite sports academy in the land, where the best
child-athletes are sent to hone their skills. When Rovi and Pretia
arrive, each harboring a secret about themselves, they begin to
suspect that something evil is at play at the school. In the course
of their first year, they must learn to master their grana in order
to save the world from dark forces that are rising.
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Becoming Muhammad Ali
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James Patterson, Kwame Alexander; Illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
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Marcus is so good at football that there's a very real chance he'll
be signed by Manchester United. But when he discovers he may be
losing his hearing, his whole world falls to pieces and he finds
himself having to put them back together on his own. But is this
feeling of isolation real or just a consequence of his own
behavior? While dealing with parents, friends and first
girlfriends, Marcus gradually understands that accepting the help
of others is ultimately an acceptance of self. A novel about
friendship and family, The Silent Striker explores the issue of
disability, identity and deafness, and the different ways in which
we can choose to handle it.
A timeless story of football, friendship and determination from
acclaimed author Rebecca Stevens - perfect for budding Lionesses!
'Girls will be galvanized to follow their dreams, break boundaries
and play football!' SOUTH WALES EVENING POST '... perfectly
captured story of football and girls set during WW1. A historical
novel not just for football fans.' ANGELS AND URCHINS It's 1917.
Lily spends her days working in a munitions factory, her nights
picking metal out of her hair, and her lunchtimes kicking a ball
with her workmates. Together they form a football team, the
Rockets, and a league soon follows. But when the war ends, the
girls lose both their jobs and their football. Not Lily. If her
only chance of being a goalie is to play with the men, then that's
what she'll do ... The perfect read for aspiring young footballers
- and to celebrate England's Euro 2022 win! Based on the true story
of the original Arsenal Ladies' team, one of several female-only
teams which formed during WW1, only to be met with a ban once the
war ended Rebecca's novels have been shortlisted for the Historical
Association Young Quills Award and the Branford Boase Award
Moby Shinobi and his sidekick Toby are on a camping adventure, in
this action-packed, rhyming early reader! Pick a book. Grow a
Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line,
Acorn, aimed at children who are learning to read. With
easy-to-read text, a short-story format, plenty of humor, and
full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading
confidence and fluency. Acorn books plant a love of reading and
help readers grow!Moby Shinobi and his dog Toby are excited to go
camping in the mountains! Moby tries to use his ninja skills to set
up tents, win a canoeing race, and hike with super speed... but
each try ends in a mess! But with some help from Toby, Moby
discovers that teamwork makes every job easier! With easy-to-read
rhyming text and full-color artwork throughout, this early reader
series from New York Times bestselling illustrator Luke Flowers is
sure to be a hit with beginning readers!
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Camila the Soccer Star
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Alicia Salazar; Contributions by Thais Damiao; Illustrated by Mario Gushiken
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Kids who love video games will love this first installment of the new 5-book series about 12-year old Jesse Rigsby and his wild adventures inside different video games.
Jesse Rigsby hates video games - and for good reason. You see, a video game character is trying to kill him. After getting sucked in the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of vaporizing man-size praying mantis while cruising around by jet pack. But pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they can't leave the game. If they don't figure out what's going on fast, they'll be trapped for good!
Fun, relevant, and action-packed Trapped in a Video Game is the perfect book to get kids off screens and into books! Included in this edition is a bonus More to Explore section that teaches computer programming concepts through a fun game.
In Yehudi Mercado's full-color middle grade graphic memoir sequel
to Chunky, Hudi and his imaginary friend, Chunky, head to Jewish
summer camp, where the dynamic duo meet a new friend who can see
Chunky, too, and get mixed up in a prank war. This series is
perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Jerry Craft. Hudi finally
embraced his love of art and comedy, but his class clown antics
keep getting him in trouble. After Hudi's artwork lands him in
detention again, his parents decide a change is needed when summer
arrives, and they sentence him to four weeks at summer camp. Hudi
is hesitant about Camp Green-a Jewish sleepaway camp in the blazing
Texas desert. At least he still has Chunky. Then Hudi meets Pepe, a
fellow camper who's also Latinx, Jewish, and a comedian like Hudi,
and who-get this-can also see Chunky! What?! The rest of Hudi's
bunkmates are also a motley crew of misfits. Has Hudi finally found
his people? This new friendship with Pepe leads Hudi and Chunky
into all kinds of hijinks, including a prank war with a few rival
campers: the rich, preppy trio of Joshes. Hudi soon realizes that
Pepe is driven by more than just making people laugh and he's not
telling Hudi the truth. As the pranks escalate further than Hudi
wants, he's at risk of getting labeled a troublemaker again-can
Chunky help Hudi save this new friendship? Or will it flame out?
The boys of Kings Row bout with drama, rivalry, and romance in this
original YA novel by The New York Times bestselling author Sarah
Rees Brennan--inspired by the award-nominated comic series by C.S.
Pacat and Johanna The Mad. Sixteen-year-old Nicholas Cox is the
illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion who dreams of
getting the proper training he could never afford. After earning a
place on the elite Kings Row fencing team, Nicholas must prove
himself to his rival, Seiji Katayma, and navigate the clashes,
friendships, and relationships between his teammates on the road to
state championships--where Nicholas might finally have the chance
to spar with his golden-boy half-brother. Coach Williams decides to
take advantage of the boys' morale after a recent victory and
assigns them a course of team building exercises to further deepen
their bonds. It takes a shoplifting scandal, a couple of moonlit
forest strolls, several hilariously bad dates, and a whole lot of
introspection for the team to realize they are stronger together
than they could ever be apart. The first installment of this
enticing original YA novel series by Sarah Rees Brennan, rich with
casual diversity and queer self-discovery, explores
never-before-seen drama inspired by C.S. Pacat's critically
acclaimed Fence comic series and boasts original cover and interior
art by Johanna The Mad. Text and Illustration copyright: © 2020
BOOM! Studios Fence(TM) and © 2020 C.S. Pacat
A delightful tale of victory against all odds from master
storyteller, Michael Morpurgo, lavishly illustrated by Michael
Foreman. "Every fox in the whole town, in the whole country just
about, is a football fan... And we all have an impossible dream."
In a cosy den under a garden shed lives a family of foxes. They
love to watch football - all foxes do. But their favourite team
keeps losing and losing, and it seems like things will never look
up. That is, until Daddy Fox finds the ghost of a king, buried
underneath a car park. A king who wishes only to be free. "Release
me," says the Ghost King, "and I can do anything. Just tell me your
greatest wish." For these football-loving foxes, might everything
be about to change...?
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All to Play For
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Eve Ainsworth; Illustrated by Kirsti Beautyman
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Lewis loves football more than anything else in the world, so he's
thrilled when his talent is spotted by a local coach. But there are
some big obstacles in his way. His mum doesn't want him to have
anything to do with the game because of what happened to his dad on
the pitch. And even if Lewis can persuade her to let him give it a
go, there's no way they can afford the kit. Can Lewis beat the odds
to have a chance of following his dream?
Will is football mad. He practises every day and he's got great
skills - but he's the shortest in his year. He knows he would be
great on the football pitch, if only he could show the coach that
skill can beat size. Will Will ever get a chance to play on the
team? Zero to Hero is a football-filled adventure about
determination, overcoming the odds and being a team player.
Bloomsbury High Low books encourage and support reading practice by
providing gripping, age-appropriate stories for struggling and
reluctant readers, those with dyslexia, or those with English as an
additional language. Printed on tinted paper with a dyslexia
friendly font, Zero to Hero is aimed at readers aged 10+ and has a
manageable length (64 pages) and reading age (8+). Produced in
association with reading experts at Catch Up, a charity which aims
to address underachievement caused by literacy and numeracy
difficulties.
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Spinning
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Tillie Walden; Illustrated by Tillie Walden
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Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading
journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have
created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read.
Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading
notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support
and ebooks available. Ruby adores playing football, but it’s 1921
and the Football Association has decided that football isn’t
suitable for girls – and Ruby’s father is in complete
agreement. Can Ruby’s ingenious solution save the day?
Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's
sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support
and stimulating activities.
The first official chapter book series based on Minecraft! The
adventures continue in the Minecraft Chapter Book series as five
young Minecraft players find themselves transported inside the game
they love. When zombie hordes attack them in the game, and bats
invade their school in the real world, Ash, Morgan, and their
friends realize that it's going to take all their talents to get to
the bottom of these monstrous migrations. This illustrated
hardcover series will thrill and engage fans of Minecraft and
action-packed fantasy stories alike. (c) 2019 Mojang AB and Mojang
Synergies AB. MINECRAFT and MOJANG are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Mojang Synergies AB.
Fantastiese nuus vir jong sportliefhebbers! Vir die eerste keer verskyn twee van Jaco Jacobs se supergewilde sportstories saam in een omnibus - met 'n klomp lekker rugby- en krieketfeite as bonus!
In Gevaarlike lopies kan Henk nie wag vir die kriekettoer om te begin nie. Wat kan nou lekkerder wees as om saam met jou vriende die land plat te toer en die een krieketwedstryd ná die ander te speel! Maar van die begin af is dit duidelik dat hierdie nie 'n gewone toer gaan wees nie. Wie probeer by die span se bussie inbreek, en wat soek hulle? Is daar regtig iemand wat snags in die koshuisgange rondsluip, of is dit Henk se verbeelding? Kort voor lank lyk dit of die kriekettoer in 'n nagmerrie gaan ontaard ...
Werner en sy vriende in Duskant die doodlyn lééf vir rugby. Hierdie jaar is hulle vasbeslote om hul aartsvyande 'n ding of twee op die rugbyveld te wys. Maar iets is verkeerd. Wie is die geheimsinnige man wat snags by die skool rondsluip? En waarom gebeur daar skielik allerhande vreemde dinge met Werner-hulle se rugbyafrigter? Dit begin al hoe meer lyk of iemand nie volgens die reëls speel nie en Werner en die res van sy span beland in groot gevaar ...
All Vera wants to do is fit in - but that's not easy for a Russian
girl in the suburbs. Her friends live in fancy houses and their
parents can afford to send them to the best summer camps. Vera's
single mother can't afford that sort of luxury, but there's one
summer camp in her price range - Russian summer camp. Vera is sure
she's found the one place she can fit in, but camp is far from what
she imagined. And nothing could prepare her for all the 'cool girl'
drama, endless Russian history lessons, and outhouses straight out
of nightmares! Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Cece Bell, and
Victoria Jamieson, Vera Brosgol's Be Prepared is a funny and
relatable middle-grade graphic novel about navigating your own
culture, struggling to belong, and the value of true friendship.
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