Fun and Engaging: Read an Extract from Kicking Goals #3: Sports Day by Sam Kerr and Fiona Harris, Illustrated by Aki Fukuoka

Fun and Engaging: Read an Extract from Kicking Goals #3: Sports Day by Sam Kerr and Fiona Harris, Illustrated by Aki Fukuoka

CHAPTER ONE

EAST FREMANTLE PRIMARY SCHOOL MONDAY
9.05 am

‘Did you go to the MCG?’

‘Yeah!’ Dylan says. ‘We saw the Carlton–Melbourne game.’

‘No way!’ I squeal.

I stare at my best friend in amazement.

I’m so jealous I can hardly breathe! I mean, it’s only one of my biggest dreams in the WORLD to go to Melbourne one day and watch a game at the actual Melbourne Cricket Ground, the place where AFL football began!

Dylan grins. ‘Yeah, it was awesome.’

It’s day one of term two and the whole school has gathered in the hall for our first assembly. Three hundred students are all sitting cross-legged on the cold hardwood floor waiting for it to begin, and the noise echoes around the hall and bounces off the walls. It sounds like Subiaco Oval on game day in here! The preps are definitely the loudest. I can hear them all the way from the back of the hall where us Grade Sixers always sit.

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    Publisher details

    Kicking Goals #3: Sports Day
    Authors
    Aki Fukuoka, Fiona Harris, Sam Kerr
    Publisher
    Simon and Schuster
    Genre
    Children’s Fiction
    Released
    30 March, 2022
    ISBN
    9781761100918

    Synopsis

    It’s official! Eleven-year-old Sam Kerr is a fully-fledged soccer tragic! So, when the school’s annual Sports Day comes around, she is disappointed when soccer isn’t on the list of activities.

    Sam goes on a mission to get her beloved game added to the program. With help from her best friends, Indi and Dylan, she petitions her classmates to create the first-ever soccer team in the history of her school. But will Chelsea stir up trouble and ruin everything?

    On the home front, Sam and her siblings are organising a surprise party for their parents’ wedding anniversary. But things aren’t going to plan! And with her team’s grand final just around the corner, there’s a lot to deal with … even for a soccer superstar in the making!

    Sam Kerr
    About the author

    Sam Kerr

    Sam Kerr is the captain of the Australia women’s national soccer team – the Matildas – and a leading goal scorer for Chelsea in the English FA Women’s Super League. She burst onto the W-League scene as a 15-year-old playing with Perth Glory. In 2016 she played for the Matildas at the Olympics in Brazil, and she was the top goal scorer in the 2017 Tournament of Nations. Since joining Chelsea in 2019, Sam has positioned herself as one of the best female strikers in the world. She was named 2018 Young Australian of the Year.

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    Fiona Harris
    About the author

    Fiona Harris

    Fiona is an actor/writer. She has written for television sketch comedy shows Flipside, Comedy Inc, Skithous and Prank Patrol, story consulted on The Time of Our Lives, had three books published in the Forever Clover series for Hardie Grant Egmont and directed numerous stage plays for Stage School Australia. She is also mother to two beautiful girls, who are quite partial to a bit of singing and dancing on stage!

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    Aki Fukuoka
    About the author

    Aki Fukuoka

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