Book Info
Loading other formats...Format
Paperback64 pages
Author's Website
www.tompalmer.co.uk/Illustrated By
Dylan GibsonPublisher
Barrington Stoke LtdSuitable for Ages
Featured Books for 9+ readersDyslexia-friendly Books
Great books for all reluctant readers
Publication date
22nd October 2011ISBN
9781842999448Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
Click to buy book vouchers
Scrum!
Written by: Tom Palmer
Illustrated by: Dylan Gibson
This title is in stock
Lovereading4kids Price: £4.49
RRP: £5.99 Saving £1.50 (25%)
Julia Eccleshare's comment:
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. A passion for rugby and a dilemma about it too lies at the heart of this touching story of a boy with a big decision to make. Steven shares his passion for Rugby League with his father who cheers him on from the touch line at every match. Steven’s a good player and the scouts are watching him. But when his moves two hundred miles south to live with his mother and her new partner he has to play Rugby Union and he knows how much his father will hate it! How Steven reconciles his love of the game with the split in his life captures a dilemma sensitively.
To view other titles we think are suitable for reluctant readers please click here.
A Dyslexia Friendly title.
Who is Julia Eccleshare ?
Win a selection of signed books from Barrington Stoke!
To celebrate the 15th Birthday of the publishers Barrington Stoke, our readers have the chance to win a selection of books - all signed by the authors, including Ross Collins, Geraldine McCaughrean, Kaye Umansky and Keith Gray. To have a chance of winning a set of these great books, click the button below, and select the age range you want. There will be 3 lucky winners per category. Please note that this draw is open only for UK residents and is free to enter. Draw closes on 3rd June 2013. The winner will be chosen randomly from all entrants. Winners will be notified by 17 June 2013.
Please choose from the age ranges below....
Synopsis
Scrum! by Tom PalmerOne boy, two codes - How will he decide? When Steven's mother remarries and moves down south, Steven is torn between loyalty to his dad and a relationship with his mum's new husband. Maybe even worse, he might have to leave his beloved Rugby League behind for a new Rugby Union team. A cracking rugby story from the sports master and Reading Champion, Tom Palmer.
About The Author
Tom Palmer is a football fan and a writer. But he wasn't always good at writing. He did badly at school and hated reading, in particular, until he was seventeen. It was reading about football that changed his life. Because it was then he decided he wanted to become a football writer, so he could be paid for watching football and writing about it. It took a few years, but now he goes all over the world to watch football and sometimes he writes about it. Sometimes he just watches it.
He likes writing stories like Football Detective as much as writing about what happens in real games.
More books by this author
Share this book