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The Unlucky Eleven

By Phil Earle
Series: Little Gems
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The Unlucky Eleven is a children's book that follows a football-mad schoolboy who convinces his bookish friends to form an unlikely football team. Despite being inexperienced, the team bands together, facing comical challenges as they strive for victory on the pitch. Throughout their journey, they learn valuable lessons about friendship, teamwork, and resilience.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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You might enjoy this book if you love stories about underdog sports teams overcoming obstacles. It’s a fun, heartwarming tale full of adventure and friendship, perfect for young readers who appreciate humour and teamwork in their stories.

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The Unlucky Eleven

A fun football tale for little readers packed with laughs, friendship and a spot of superstition ...

A fun football tale for little readers packed with laughs, friendship and a spot of superstition ...

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A fun football tale for little readers packed with laughs, friendship and a spot of superstition …


Ridiculous injuries … strange illnesses … cancelled games … Everything's going wrong for the Saints this season, and Stanley's team-mates believe they finally know why. Their football kit is cursed! But the team's attempts to break the curse take things from bad to worse. Soon, they're ready to call it quits. Stanley's still got some tricks up his sleeve … but will his curse-cracking ideas save the team in time for the last game of the season?

Series: Little Gems

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The Unlucky Eleven is praised for its humour, engaging portrayal of friendship, and an authentic look at football culture. The book is described as a delightful read for both young and old fans of the sport, with its action-packed narrative and illustrations enhancing accessibility for reluctant and dyslexic readers.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781781128503

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 May 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Barrington Stoke Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Steve May
  • Illustrated by Steve May

Audience: Children, Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 168.0mm

Weight: 150g

Pages: 104

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Phil Earle Series: Little Gems Young Adult

About the Author

PHIL EARLE was born and raised in Hull and kick-started his love of books with a job as a children's bookseller. Phil now works in children's publishing and is the award-winning author of several books for young readers including Get Me Out of Here, a recent collaboration with Andy McNab, and the young adult novels Being Billy, and Mind the Gap. Phil's When the Sky Falls was Waterstones Children's Book of the Month for June 2021. Steve May has been a life-long doodler, studying fine art and film making in Nottingham and Animation at the Royal College of Art. Steve's scratchy spontaneous illustration style made him the perfect partner for Puffin's best-selling Dennis the Menace fiction series, Harry Hill's Matt Mills series and Francesca Simon's Terrible Viking books. He has also been happily immersed in a world of burps, beards and bogeys as part of his collaboration with Gareth Jones on the Pet Defenders series.

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