SuitabookPlanet Football
Michelle Robinson
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A football-obsessed boy’s kick sets off a comic-scale adventure, taking the game from Earth to the moon and bringing football-mad aliens into the story.
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Michelle Robinson
A football-obsessed boy’s kick sets off a comic-scale adventure, taking the game from Earth to the moon and bringing football-mad aliens into the story.
Phil Earle
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Tom Palmer
A football-centred mystery with a young investigator, kidnapping and criminal danger.
Michaela Morgan
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.
Phil Earle
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.
Paul Stewart
A brisk school-football story turns one costly mistake into a problem about friendship and blame.
Alex Wheatle
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.
Rebecca Stevens
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.
Tom Palmer
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.
Bali Rai
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.
Brian Bilston
A playful football-themed poetry collection, best suited to sharing jokes, wordplay and different poetic forms.
Choose this for a football-focused introduction to women’s football history, especially if the reader enjoys real players, sporting milestones, statistics and short factual sections alongside longer historical stories.
Michaela Morgan
A visually presented life story linking football, military leadership and racial unfairness.
Simon Mugford
Choose this for a lively introduction to a prominent women’s footballer, especially if the reader enjoys football facts, cartoons, quizzes and stories about recovering from setbacks.
Simon Mugford
A lively, illustrated football biography follows Salah from childhood in Egypt through youth football, setbacks and European success. Quizzes, facts, jokes and commentary add activity alongside the biographical storytelling.
Michael Rosen
Macbeth United: A Football Tragedy is presented as a children’s-fiction reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, set in a football context.
Tom Palmer
A football-focused school story about friends responding to a playground ban by creating a secret club.
Kit Cross
This appears to offer a focused introduction to Mary Fowler through the subject of football and the idea of sporting legends. The available details do not establish whether it is chiefly biographical, statistical, historical or motivational.
Matt Oldfield
This offers a football-centred adventure with a secret-agent twist: academy training and matches sit alongside investigation, gadgets and chases. Its central appeal is the tension between Ethan’s sporting ambition and concealed mission.
Rob Jones
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.
Eric Hill
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.
Michael Foreman
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.
Ben Lerwill
A warm introduction to football as something people can enjoy together, whether playing in a major stadium or an informal outdoor space. It foregrounds shared participation and belonging rather than competition, expertise or football celebrity.
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.