Game On
Baljit is close to achieving his dream of playing for Liverpool FC, but he's forced to balance his football ambitions with some difficult decisions in this uplifting sequel to Dream On.
Baljit's days shovelling chips in his dad's chippy are numbered – Liverpool FC want him for their youth squad. It's a dream come true, and till then there's football to play and Hannah to hang out with.
But when local thugs, match-day disasters and trouble on the road intervene, Baljit needs all his skills just to stay in the game.
Particularly suitable for readers aged 11+ with a reading age of 8.
Bali Rai was born in Leicester where he grew up in a multicultural community dreaming of playing football for Liverpool FC, being Bob Marley or becoming a writer. He writes the books he would have enjoyed as a teenager and his book Rani and Sukh is a set-text for GCSE English. His novel, Killing Honour, won the North East Teenage Book Award, and was described as “utterly compelling” by The Bookseller.