City Boy
Josh undertakes some unusual training methods to improve his technique in this fun football story, edited to a reading age of 6.5.
Josh is football mad – and so is his granddad, who used to be a league player. Josh is disappointed when he doesn't do so well in matches at school, so his granddad comes up with some rather unorthodox training methods to help him. Will Josh make it all the way? Fun football story.
Alan Combes began writing as a teacher and has since combined a 30-year teaching career with success as a writer, both as an author and as a football journalist for newspapers such as The Sunday Times. His other titles for Barrington
Stoke include City Boy and The Dead Man Files. He lives in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.