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The beautiful game / Alan Gibbons ; with illustrations by Chris Chalik.

The beautiful game / Alan Gibbons ; with illustrations by Chris Chalik.
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JF GIBB
 Dyslexic Font Dyslexic font book   Childrens . Available .  
Reserve Title Catalogue Record 718697
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ISBN 9781781126912 (paperback)
Classification JF GIBB
Personal Name Gibbons, Alan, 1953-
Title The beautiful game / Alan Gibbons ; with illustrations by Chris Chalik.
Edition Dyslexic books edition.
Production & Copyright Details Edinburgh : Barrington Stoke, 2017.
©2017
Physical Description 65 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Content type text
still image
Series Dyslexic books
Note Optimized reading formats.
"This book is also super readable" --Back cover.
Summary Note At an Old Trafford game, Lennie hears Man U fans chanting about Hillsborough. Enraged, he joins in with a retaliatory chant about the Munich Disaster of '58. Appalled, his dad and granddad take Lennie on a whistlestop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game. Dad and Grandad know only too well the human cost of fan violence and official negligence, having experience racism in football fandom and survived the Hillsborough disaster.
Target audience note Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+.
Subject - Topical Term Soccer -- Juvenile fiction
Children's stories
Families -- Juvenile fiction
Subject - Fiction Genre UK & IRL fiction
Added Entry - Personal Name Chalik, Chris illustrator.
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