Alan Gibbons returns with an action-packed football story accompanied by fascinating facts and historical detail about famous substitutes. New boy Smithy can’t understand why everyone is so excited about a player on the football team called "Bengo". He’s been absent for the first few games of the season, and starts the next game on the bench - surely he can’t be that special? But when the…
Josh is crazy about football, but he hasn't been performing well on the pitch. His grandad, a retired pro, decides to train him. The training methods are a little unorthodox... But will they help?
New boy Shane Logan is loud and has a short temper, but on the football field he also turns out to be a talented goalie. In the first match for his new team, Shane delivers a star performance - but he's not the only one to make an impression. Hanging over him like a shadow is his dad, Mick, who yells orders and insults from the sidelines. What is Mick's problem? And why does Shane seem scared o…
Floating across the sky in her hot air balloon, Cassi watches a flock of swifts dive and swoop through the air. On their journey, the swifts witness the wind and all it's majesty as it awakes with a fury, whipping ocean waves and crafting spiralling hurricane clouds bursting with power
Jimi dreams of playing in the all-white kit of the Lions of Senegal but he can't see how his dream will ever come true. Even though he is the best footballer in the region, the bigger boys never let him play with them. But can he change their minds? With huge support from his family, Jimi finds that there is nothing that he can't achieve!Interwoven with lots of facts about the history of Africa…