Up and Running

It's the first match in major pre-season tournament, the Cathay Cup. Hosts Stanford FC are playing Sevilla. Academy hopeful and striker Callum is on the bench. Will he get the chance to get his First Team career up and running?

It's the first match in major pre-season tournament, the Cathay Cup. Hosts Stanford FC are playing Sevilla. Academy hopeful and striker Callum is on the bench. Will he get the chance to get his First Team career up and running?An aspirational series that follows two footballers, Callum and Jackson, through their first prestigious international pre-season tournament. It features relatable teen characters from a variety of social and cultural backgrounds and is set in the highly pressurised world of professional football. Perfect for readers who love an action-driven plot as well as committed football fans, these books have plenty of drama happening both and off the pitch. The titles in this series of Hi-Lo books for students aged between 10 and 16 years include books for reading ages 9-10 years and utilise a range of dyslexia-friendly features to support pupils' reading. Making the Team are printed on off-white paper and incorporate an easy-to-read font and text separated into bite-sized chunks, along with carefully considered letter and paragraph spacing that can reduce visual stress. While these books have instantly appealing characters and gripping storylines, the language and sentence structure are intentionally written so that students who are reading behind their chronological age can succeed in reading them.