Book description
Girls FC: the best team for football and friendship. The under eleven
girls' league is well underway and Lucy Skidmore is her team's best
defender. Bright, sporty and 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. He is so badly behaved! Lucy overcompensates by
trying to please both parents all the time. But with a dad living miles
away, a mum stressed out and a sulky brother to contend with, Lucy is
feeling the pressure. Helena Pielichaty (pronounced Pierre-li-hatty)
is the bestselling author of numerous children's books, including the
highly successful Simone's Letters, which was nominated for the Carnegie
Medal. Her series, The After School Club, has eight titles and the
bind-up, Clubbing Together, sold more than 25,000 copies in its first
six months. A local girls' under elevens team helps with the inspiration
and tactical know-how for Girls FC, but Helena has been an avid fan of
women's football for many years. Football clearly runs in the family as
her aunt was in a women's team in the 1950s and her daughter has been
playing since she was ten (she is now twenty-three!). Helena lives in
Nottinghamshire with her husband and has two grown-up children.
