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For National Curriculum Key Stage 3, Interest age: from c 12 years, Interest age: from c 13 years, Fiction, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Romance & relationships stories (Children's / Teen, Sporting stories (Children's / Teenage), Football / soccer (Children's / Teenage)
If you're 18, love Beckham and can bend a ball like him the world's your oyster, right Wrong. If you're Jess - 18, Indian and a girl - forget it.
Jess just wants to play football but her wedding-obsessed parents have other ideas so she hides it from them. But when Jess and her friend Jules join a ladies team and get spotted by a talent scout, it all kicks off...
Narinder Dhami
Narinder Dhami is the author of popular fiction series The Beautiful Game, about a girls' football team, many books in the hugely successful Rainbow Magic series and the bestselling novelisation of the film Bend it Like Beckham. She was a primary teacher before she began writing full time. She lives with her husband in Shropshire.
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