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Booked

"Verse novel about life for a football mad teen as his family hits problems, this tells how they survive"

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Shortlisted for the CLPE Children’s Poetry Award (CLiPPA) 2017

Nick is football mad, finding more poetry, more to stimulate him on the soccer field and with a ball at his feet than he ever does in books.  This doesn’t go down well with his father, a linguistics professor with ‘chronic verbomania’, but at least his best friend understands. Cody and Nick are on opposing football teams but the same side for everything else, including facing up to the school bullies. When he’s hit by the twin blows of an injury and the news that his parents are separating however, Nick is surprised to find real comfort in books.  Booked is written in free verse, like the author’s previous novel The Crossover, and the form brilliantly catches the energy and ups and downs of Nick’s life, giving his story an immediacy that helps make this irresistible reading.

If Booked sends readers looking for more verse novels Sarah Crossan’s The Weight of Water is also excellent while Patrick Neate's Small Town Hero is great on football and teen life.

Andrea Reece

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