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Phil Earle
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.
Pete Johnson
A comic family-and-school story about a child navigating ambitious parents, a new school and competing ideas about attention. Its main appeal is the child’s perspective on adult expectations and the awkward question of whether independence can become neglect.
Tom Palmer
A football-centred story about pressure, responsibility and learning to co-operate, with Roy juggling his place in the team, college, family duties and coaching. It offers both match-focused excitement and everyday-life concerns.
Dee Benson
Lara balances football training with her friends’ ideas for a school business competition. The book follows her effort to pursue sporting ambitions while managing friendship, feelings, competition and apparent pressure from people who enjoy seeing her struggle.
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
This is a dark family mystery centred on five adopted teenagers shaped into prodigies by an intrusive educational system. Its strongest material concerns identity, pressure, sibling rivalry and solidarity after their father’s death.
Adeline Yen Mah
This is a painful but determined childhood memoir: Adeline faces rejection, deprivation, mockery and harsh treatment, while school achievement, friendships and a few loving relatives help her retain a sense of self.
Frann Preston-Gannon
This is a seaside fantasy adventure about exploration, competition and friendship, with natural-world facts alongside magical rockpoolers. Its central tension comes from wanting to win while searching for something rare before sunset.
Ernest Hemingway
This is a concentrated story of an ageing fisherman’s prolonged struggle at sea. It offers quiet reflection, precise physical detail and a serious meditation on perseverance, pride, loss and what achievement means when results do not last.
Philip Pullman
This is a brisk, fantastical adventure about determination, danger and becoming a firework-maker. Lila’s journey combines perilous tests, a family predicament and a spectacular public performance, with illustrations contributing to the imagined world.
Eric Huang, illustrated by Phung Nguyen Quang
This is an adventure about competing for lasting recognition, while unexpected friendships form during a demanding journey. Its mythological basis and animal characters offer a lively route into the lunar-zodiac story.
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