Girls FC: the best team for football and friendship. It's almost the end of the first season and Holly Woolcock's team are holding a special presentation evening to celebrate. Who will win the prizes, especially the coveted Player's Player of the Season Award? Holly knows one thing - it won't be her.

If you're mad about football then look no further than this great collection for four fab footie stories. From a dynamo striker in Mark's Dream Team and a fantastic goalie in Nice One, Sam! to a desperate school team in There's Only One Danny Ogle and a side about to enter the record books in The Worst Team in the World - there's a story here about all aspects and abilities of football. So ...

Girls FC: the best team for football and friendship. Nika Kozak is playing in a special tournament to celebrate the World Cup, and each team is to be given a country to represent. Nika is delighted when her team is selected as the Ukraine, the country where she was born and brought up.

The under eleven girls' league is well underway and Lucy Skidmore is her team's best defender. Happy-go-lucky, her parents' divorce doesn't seem to have affected her at all. The same is not true of her older brother, Harry. But with a dad living miles away, a mum stressed out and a sulky brother to contend with, Lucy is feeling the pressure.

Nine-year-old Megan Fawcett loves football, and is desperate to be on her school team. That means getting her school football coach to notice her. She tries everything, from volleying to dribbling to even wearing a tiara, but without success. Then she'll set up her own team. Now all she needs is a pitch, a coach... and ten other players.

A pack of 6 books with colour illustrations. Each of the six titles is supported by parental notes on the inside back cover, and is covered with teaching support in the set of teaching notes.

It's her team's first football tournament and Petra Ward can't wait to play. But her mum has some bad news: the match falls on the same weekend as her older sister Charlotte's important riding event. As usual, Charlotte (and the ponies) come first. Petra wonders if anyone will ever put her first.

Sammie, Brody, Alex, and Jolene are the fabulous, feisty girls from the After School Club and each has their own story to tell. They all have very different lives and all have families who can be a complete pain, but through all their ups and downs they have a common bond.

Twins Daisy and Dylan love playing football, but try as they might, they are always late for matches. Living in a converted windmill with a scatty mum, a disorganized dad, ballet-mad twin brothers and countless pets doesn't help. Unfortunately the twins' laid-back attitude annoys some of their teammates.

At any other time they would never have met. Bright, arty Emma with the steady boyfriend and a new baby. James, the public schoolboy who won a bet but flunked all his exams in the process. Leon, sent to college instead of prison who's angry at the world and determined on revenge. And bolshy Grace, who acts like she doesn't care, but underneath it all has a very surprising secret to spring on the .

Suzanne thought the bullying was over once Karenna left school three years ago, but when she starts her new job as the Saturday girl in the local hairdressers she discovers that Karenna is the junior stylist - although judging by the way she flounces around the place, anyone would think she was the manager! All the old feelings of dread, terror, and sickness in the pit of her stomach come back ..

TreeTops Classics are part of a structured reading programme for juniors from Oxford Reading Tree, Stages 9-16. These classics are available in mixed packs of six books or class packs of 36 books. They have been sensitively adapted to enrich your junior pupils' reading and will introduce your readers to significant authors from the past - a key part of the Literacy Strategy.

Teaches and practises key reading skills such as high frequency words, phonics, syntax and semantics, whilst complementing and extending the Additional Literacy Support (DFES) and Further Literacy Support (DFES) initiatives. This work provides teaching support with high quality PCMs in the Teacher's Guides to Guided Reading Booklets.

A pack of 6 books with colour illustrations. Each of the six titles is supported by parental notes on the inside back cover, and is covered with teaching support in the set of teaching notes.

When Danny moves to the countryside, the only good thing to come out of it is that he might have a chance at getting picked for the school football team. Danny loves football. He eats, breathes, and sleeps football. But will the other kids at his new school want to be friends with him? And, will they want him in their team?

Presents two stories about the friends from the After School Club. In 'Sammie's Back', all Sammie wants is for her mum and dad to get back together - so she makes a wish and tries to make it come true. Brody's also having problems in 'Brody's Back'. Everyone always relies upon her - but there's nobody there when she need some help.

Contains two stories about the friends from the After School Club - in Alex's Back , Alex has decided to keep her life simple. But everything gets complicated when she's asked to keep a secret, and then there's the secret about the secret! and, in Jolene's Back , Jolene has got a whole heap of problems.

Presenting a paperback edition, this is the story of Louisa May. She wants to be normal, like everyone else, but doesn't know how to go about it. Her mother lives in a fantasy world. This is a novel of the bonds that exist between mother and daughter, how one supports the other, and of their struggles to find a way out of poverty.

Jade doesn't know how to cope when her father starts behaving oddly. He sits in a chair all day, staring into space, not even bothering to get dressed. It's only as she comes to understand him better that she come to terms with what's happening to him. This work is an insightful study of what it's like to have a parent break down.

A pack of 6 books with colour illustrations. Each of the six titles is supported by parental notes on the inside back cover, and is covered with teaching support in the set of teaching notes.