Boot It!
World Book Day 2023
Published on 16. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-910646-83-0 (ISBN)
Description
Sami and Ali dream of playing for the school football team. They practise in the park every day and work hard on their skills. But acing the trials is the last of the boys' worries when they're made to feel they don't belong on the team because of the colour of their skin. Ali just wants to tackle the ball on the pitch. Now he's being forced to tackle the racism in his team too. But how can he, when he's told it's 'just banter'? From the award-winning author of 'Boy, Everywhere', a powerful story of friendship and booting out racism
Reviews / Votes
The perfect World Book Day bookThe World Book Day books are designed to introduce readers to great authors and their amazing books, and A M Dassu is the ideal author to write one. In one short volume, she lets new readers meet some of the characters from her other books and tells an excellent story with a vital theme, that of racism, especially racism in sport. Through the eyes of Sami and Ali, the main characters, we get to witness first-hand that what some might dismiss as 'banter' hurts and is wholly unacceptable. Racism must be booted out of sport at every level, from grassroots to top flight. As with her other books, A M Dassu teaches acceptance and representation by allowing us to see the damage intolerance and racism do from the point of view of thoroughly likeable and very real characters. She is a wonderful storyteller, with important things to say and hopefully this little book will encourage readers to seek out and love her full-length novels, Boy Everywhere, Fight Back and the now eagerly anticipated Kicked Out! (coming in October). Highly recommended. -- Bob Stone Boot it! may be a short book but it certainly packs a punch. Exploring the shocking racism within our society, it's another must-read. -- Jacqui Sydney The perfect book to kick start a reading journey for a child who might not have enjoyed reading in the past. -- Rumena Aktar
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Reading Age: From 9 to 14 years, Interest Age: From 10 to 14 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 110 mm
Weight
75 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-910646-83-0 (9781910646830)
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Person
A. M. Dassu is the internationally acclaimed and award-winning author of 'Boy, Everywhere'. She is a Director of Inclusive Minds, an organisation for people who are passionate about inclusion, diversity, equality and accessibility in children's literature, and one of the National Literacy Trust's Connecting Stories campaign authors, aiming to help inspire a love of reading and writing in children and young people.