Shareen is the star of the school’s football team. She’s also the only girl on it! Despite her strong friendship with the boys, a popular girl, Georgia, labels her ‘out’ and uncool. When Shareen’s football boots go missing, she has a prime suspect in mind. Angry about the stolen shoes, Shareen stumbles upon Georgia being teased by some older pupils. Will she step in and stop the bullies? How can she use her football skills to help? Challenging expectations and finding friends in unlikely places, Pink Football Boots scores all the right goals for girls who are more than the ordinary.
This series contains lively female leads and exciting adventures involving animals, mistaken identities, twisted fairy tales, mysteries, football, aliens, magical powers and deep sea monsters. Each title contains simple sentences with line breaks, engaging illustrations and questions at the end to ensure that the text has been fully comprehended.
This hi-lo series for struggling and reluctant readers has been written for children aged between 8 and 13 years, whose current reading age is between 7 and 8 years. These age-appropriate short reads have 32 pages and are written by talented authors writing stories with relatable characters. They incorporate a large font size and text separated into bite-sized chunks, along with carefully considered letter and paragraph spacing that can reduce visual stress. The series has plenty of practice at one level, allowing consolidation of learning before moving on to more challenging reads. The vocabulary list of tricky words can aid comprehension before reading the book.
This is Book 9 in the GEMS Series. See all GEMS books here.
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Alan Combes began writing as a teacher and has since combined a 30-year teaching career with success as a writer, both as an author and as a football journalist for newspapers such as The Sunday Times.
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The second book in a fabulous new magical, middle-grade series filled with adventure, wonder and wildness,
