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This is a football story with a family-move dilemma: Oliver has found a place on his new team and begun to make friends, but another move may take both away.

A football story in which Rocky tries to manage extra responsibilities while feeling responsible for a friend’s injury. Changing team roles and friendship tensions complicate his efforts.

This is a character-focused story combining high-school football with friendship, family and farm life, following D. J. through an autumn in which several parts of her life become difficult.

A compact team guide that combines Falcons history and highlights with practical football explanations and reference material. It may suit a reader interested in how the team and sport fit together.

This is a socially engaged sports novel: football brings two North American teenagers into contact with marginalised local players, while different experiences of race, class and belonging become increasingly difficult to ignore.

A lively football story about friendship, team identity and the excitement of entering a proper championship. Humour drives the opening, while competition and disagreement introduce more serious questions about belonging.

This is a short magical football story centred on loneliness, family support and social change. Its central tension comes from Timmy being treated differently before and after demonstrating an unusual ability.

A sports mystery built around a strained friendship, team pressure and an investigation into threats and sabotage. The buried-treasure connection adds historical intrigue, while danger raises the stakes beyond the football pitch.

A warm football adventure uses Pickles’s humorous viewpoint to explore a family trying to stay together while money problems and housing insecurity affect everyday life.

A football-centred mystery with a young investigator, kidnapping and criminal danger.

A concise, focused account of Walter Tull’s life, linking football achievement with racism, military service and the search for respect. Its accessible presentation may help readers encounter a significant historical figure without a lengthy or highly demanding text.

This is a fast-moving historical ghost story that combines football, Iron Age Britain and unsettling visions, with Seth’s family worry and a meeting that helps him find courage.

A lively football story about a struggling team, a supposed cursed kit and Stanley’s efforts to restore confidence. Expect comic superstition, setbacks and team-focused action, with the ending centred on the last game.

A brisk school-football story turns one costly mistake into a problem about friendship and blame.

A brisk supernatural football mystery with three friends, secret overnight exploration and mounting suspense. Its short chapters and cliff-hangers may suit readers who want an exciting story without a long, slow build.

A football mystery with international stakes, Off Side combines investigation and danger with questions about who controls clubs, opportunities and young players’ futures. Its strongest appeal is likely the meeting of sporting excitement and real-world fairness concerns.

A tense coming-of-age story follows Kadeen as football offers connection and purpose in a new home. Her secret involvement with the team is complicated by her aunt’s opposition and the need to avoid recognition.

This is a historically grounded coming-of-age story about a girl pursuing football while working in wartime industry. It offers determination, teamwork and questions about who gets opportunities, alongside setbacks when social and institutional attitudes change.

A football-centred route into First World War history, this is an emotionally direct story about ambition, enlistment and survival. Its accessible presentation may support readers who want a gripping historical novel without dense prose.

A football-focused sequel about ambition under pressure, balancing a possible professional opportunity with family work, social relationships and disruptive encounters. It may suit a reader who enjoys sport-centred stories with setbacks.

Macbeth United: A Football Tragedy is presented as a children’s-fiction reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, set in a football context.

A football-focused school story about friends responding to a playground ban by creating a secret club.

This is a visual, fact-led football exploration rather than a story-led book: lift-the-flap pages invite children to investigate equipment, training, skills, history and life around clubs.

A gentle football story about Spot, Helen and their animal friends playing in two teams. It combines a simple match-day question with an emphasis on participation and enjoyment.

This is a football-centred story about aspiration, practice and a hoped-for moment of success. It also presents encouragement from a father and the boy’s wish to earn recognition from teammates.

This is a sports-centred coming-of-age story about a transgender teenager balancing football, privacy, romance, family relationships, and the possibility of advocating for other trans young people.

This is a humorous contemporary story about first love, embarrassment and trying to change an uncertain situation. Its unusual musical intervention gives Marv’s school-based crush a playful, surreal element.

A football-centred adventure that places Budi’s ambitions beside poverty, exploitative work and criminal pressure. Friendship and family support offer warmth, but the story also asks readers to confront limited choices and difficult social conditions.

A culturally rooted historical story about a boy finding confidence through football while negotiating family expectations and hostility at school. It offers a child’s perspective on belonging, tradition and personal freedom.

A football team gains a famous new coach, but his very demanding regime tests three friends who mainly want to enjoy playing. The central tension is between ambition, pressure and pleasure.

This is a faith-centred sports story about entering unfamiliar surroundings while facing racism, social pressure and difficult choices. Its strongest focus appears to be how Perry understands identity, belonging and responsibility through a Christian lens.

This is historical fiction about a child caught in a catastrophic day while trying to reach a trusted firefighter. It combines family disagreement, football, emergency work and a sudden transformation of an ordinary city visit.

This is a fantastical football story about hope after repeated disappointment, with a family of foxes facing an apparently impossible wish and a mysterious king seeking freedom.

A determined girl challenges unfair access to school football while adjusting to bereavement, remarriage, a new home and difficult relationships. Her campaign sits alongside rebellion and a mystery involving adults around her.