Book description
Sam Scott is not your average 13-year-old girl. When Sam's friends are
off chasing boys, she's on the local footy oval training for Richmond
Juniors' upcoming matches. Her mother and father desperately want her to
give up her obsession with football and get serious about law or
medicine like her sister Kate. Sam is blitzing her junior Aussie Rules
competition when two major disasters threaten to upset her season.
First, she almost quits when the class snob calls her butch. Then, when
she turns fourteen on the eve of the finals, red tape looks like forcing
Sam out of the game she loves. Her battle to play makes her a public
hero, but Sam soon realises that being a winner in the money-fuelled AFL
world comes at a big price. From Cheryl Critchley, the author of UNSPOIL
YOUR KIDS, ESCAPE THE PARENT TRAP, OUR FOOTY and REAL FANS VS BIG BUCKS,
comes another book in the popular Junior Sports Series. Cheryl
Critchley is a Melbourne journalist who spent 21 years at the Herald Sun
covering politics, news and features before freelancing for a range of
publications including the Herald Sun and The Weekly Review. She has
written five books including UNSPOIL YOUR KIDS, ESCAPE THE PARENT TRAP,
OUR FOOTY and REAL FANS VS BIG BUCKS. She has also taught journalism at
Monash and Swinburne Universities and written for several websites.
