Product Description
Kick
Author: Mitch Johnson
Format: Paperback
Recommended for ages 10+
The Branford Boase Award 2018
Stockport Children's Book Award 2018
Teach Primary Book Awards 2018
Sheffield Children's Book Award 2018
Redbridge Children's Book Award 2018
Glenthorne High School Book Award 2018
Wirral Book Award 2018
Bolton Children's Fiction Awards 2019
The Bookling Award 2018
The Weald Book Award 2018
St Albans Schools Book Award 2018
Alexandra Palace Children's Book Award 2019
What Kids Are Reading 2019
The UKLA Book Awards 2019
Essex Book Awards 2018
North East Teen Book Award 2018
Concorde Book Award 2019
Reading Rampage Award 2019
Kick is the game-changing bestselling football adventure about chasing your dreams.
Winner of the Brandford Boase Award
Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal
Shortlisted for over 20 regional book awards
All he can see is the football, waiting for one final kick.
It's now or never.
Budi wants to be a footballer. But instead of wearing the boots, he makes them in a factory and dreams of a better life.
Then one day when he's playing football in the street, an unlucky kick brings his world crashing down. Ordered to steal a pair of boots from the factory, Budi's dreams are on the line, and if he's caught his life will be as well.
A story about dreaming big and never letting anything stand in your way.
Praise for Mitch Johnson:
"A fantastically original debut that champions hope, dogged optimism in the face of adversity, and friendship." — MG Leonard, author of Adventures on Trains
"A must-read." — Tom Palmer, author of Football Academy
"To grow up with stories like these is the beginning of finding another world, lying at our feet." — Khalid Abdalla, star of The Kite Runner
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