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  • Published: 31 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448119516
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Bad Boys



The second title in a dramatic and true-to-life series about a group of youngsters given the chance to make their dreams come true and go professional - via a soccer school run by a Premier league club

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...

  • Published: 31 December 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448119516
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the author

Tony Bradman

TONY BRADMAN graduated from Cambridge University and worked in journalism for many years as an editor and reviewer of childrens' books. Now a full-time author, he has produced several successful anthologies for young readers for Random House Children's Books, including three focusing exclusively on football: the FOOTBALL FEVER titles

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Praise for Bad Boys

Good locker-room-and-pitch drama about growing up and vying for status in the football team and at home

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