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From the award-winning author of Boy, Everywhere – shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2021 - comes a powerful story of friendship and booting out racism.

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”?

Sami and Ali’s adventure continues in Kicked Out.

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.