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Before his uncle's death, he said to his nephew that he could use it for his life as he knew that Budi wanted to be a professional footballer and this was the lifeline that his uncle had provided for HIM for Budi to fulfil his ambition with his poor chances.

Kick by Mitch Johnson | WHSmith Kick by Mitch Johnson | WHSmith

His grandmother often tells Budi stories in the evening and one of the stories features a boy who lives on an island with a very tall coconut tree. We've been considering whether to put this into our Year 6 spine to support a topic on "Global Trade" and have made the decision that it's too good a book to miss. There was one thing I didn't particularly like however, and that was the fact that there was too much going on sometimes. Whilst 'training' with his friends, his football crashes through a window of The Dragon's house, in trouble and with nowhere to go he follows one of the Dragon's brothers into the house where he is tasked with theft or finding his family out on the street and struggling to survive.Those themes, again, I thought were handled really well and just in general, it was a really strong novel.

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The story is about a boy who is to poor to go to school so he works in a factory making football boots for professional footballers. Budi’s life is tough - he sews football boots for little pay, there is no evening meal at home on a Friday and on Wednesday he imagines that the meagre serving of rice is actually spicy rendang.This has been a great success with our Y6 boys in particular, and I've finally, in a World Cup come-down, got round to reading it.