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Rocky takes the lead

Emma — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Rocky Race loves football so much that she moved to the United States to train at a high school with an amazing soccer team. She’s made new friends, even won a state championship! Now her best friends from her home in Melchester, England, have come to play a match against her new American team. Rocky is so excited!

But when her friends arrive, not everyone gets along. Her American friends don’t understand why the British call it ‘football’, and her British friends don’t understand why the Americans call it ‘soccer’. And with the match the next day, Rocky feels pressured to pick a side. But Rocky has a plan.

Will Rocky be able to take the lead and show everyone that they’re all united by their love for the game?

Game Changer

Emma — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

IT’S A ROCKY ROAD! Game Changer is the eighth book in the football-tastic Roy of the Rovers illustrated fiction series, and the second Rocky of the Rovers story. Part of the third season, this exciting series is written by award-winning author Tom Palmer.

The newly formed Melchester Women’s team are going from strength to strength in their first full season of professional football, lead by the tenacious Rocky Race. But behind the scenes, the morale of the club is low. After a shocking incident in a men’s European game, and the recent Race family tragedy, Rocky, her brother Roy, and the whole club is struggling to deal with the aftermath. What’s more, she’s fighting with Ffion her friend! Can she maintain her match-winning performances? How is she supposed to deal with everything that’s happened? And just where does her footballing future lie?

Enjoyed this title? Pick up The £100 Million Game next to continue the story!

Praise for the Roy of the Rovers series:

EPIC! – Match of the Day Magazine

I love the way that they are about so much more than football: they are about heart, values and family. Both graphic novel and fiction titles are compelling, engaging and a lot of fun. Lace up and get reading. – Jim Sells, Programme manager for Sport & Literacy, National Literacy Trust.

Read with my 7 year old who is football mad, really enjoyed it and left us wanting to read the next one in the series! – GoodReads Review

Three Stories About Ghosts

Emma — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Three standalone novellas, telling three chilling ghost stories, by three of the finest new voices in fiction.

A full-time medium and part-time cook is recruited by the nightmarish Boneman to hunt down and destroy a monster?

Two children of warring houses, in a city-state ruled by the noble houses’ long-dead ancestors, fall in love?

In a hidden college in America, a man and the shade of his wife seek out the answers behind her death?