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Football Academy: Reading the Game
  • Published: 28 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141931166
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

Football Academy: Reading the Game



Stay on the ball this season with Football Academy!

Ben is at his happiest playing for United and is getting top marks from the coach. But every day at school is a trial for Ben, as he struggles to hide a huge secret from his teachers and classmates.
Ben's secret is starting to affect his game - can he swallow his pride and ask for help before he sidelines himself - for good?

  • Published: 28 September 2009
  • ISBN: 9780141931166
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

About the author

Tom Palmer

As well as being a huge football fan, Tom Palmer has an international reputation in reader development. He is a coordinator of the Reading Partners consortium, works with The Reading Agency, Booktrust and the National Literacy Trust, and has been the official writer for the Premier League Reading Stars scheme for five years.

He also teaches annually for the Arvon Foundation, and has travelled around the world to train librarians and teachers in techniques to encourage boys to read. Foul Play is Tom's first book for Puffin, the first in the Football Detective series.

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