Girls F.C. Series By Helena Pielichaty: The Best Team For Football & Friendship! 6 Books Collection Box Set - Ages 9+ - Paperback

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• Girls FC 1: Do Goalkeepers Wear Tiaras? Nine-year-old Megan Fawcett loves football and is desperate to be on her school team. She tries everything to get the coach to notice her, even wearing a tiara! But nothing works… Then she has a brainwave
• she’ll set up her own team. An all-girls team! Now all she needs is a pitch, a coach … and ten other players. Girls FC 2: Can Ponies Take Penalties? Join the Girls FC as they show the world what it really means to play "like a girl"! "Hey! Petra Ward here. I can't wait to play in my first football tournament, but it clashes with my sister's show-jumping event... And in our family, ponies ALWAYS come first." It's the Girls FC's first ever tournament and Petra can t wait to play. She's not exactly the best defender, but she loves being part of the team and to spend time with her best friend Megan, the team captain. Then her mum delivers the bad news: the match falls on the same weekend as her older sister Charlotte s riding event. As usual, Charlotte (and the ponies) are her mum's number one priority... Girls FC 3: Are All Brothers Foul? The under eleven girls’ league is well underway and Lucy Skidmore is her team’s best defender. Bright, sporty and happy-go-lucky, her parents’ divorce doesn’t seem to have affected her at all. The same is not true of her older brother, Harry. He is so badly behaved! Lucy overcompensates by trying to please both parents all the time. But with a dad living miles away, a mum stressed out and a sulky brother to contend with, Lucy is feeling the pressure. Girls FC 4: Is An Own Goal Bad? Twins Daisy and Dylan love playing football, but try as they might, they are always late for matches. Living in a converted windmill with a scatty mum, a disorganized dad, ballet-mad twin brothers and countless pets doesn't help. Unfortunately the twins’ laid-back attitude annoys some of their team-mates. Luckily their Scottish granny is on hand with some tactics of her own to get the twins to arrive on time! Girls FC 5: Who's Hungry for a Game? It's almost the end of the first season and Holly Woolcock's team are holding a special presentation evening to celebrate. Who will win the prizes, especially the coveted Player's Player of the Season Award? Holly knows one thing ... it won't be her. Nobody's going to choose the chubby girl, are they? But Holly doesn't care what people think and she'll eat what she wants. She's happy with how she looks ... isn't she? Girls FC 6: What's Ukrainian for Football? Nika Kozak is playing in a special tournament to celebrate the World Cup, and each team is to be given a country to represent. Nika is delighted when her team is selected as the Ukraine, the country where she was born and brought up. The rest of the team are all disappointed, though ... they wanted to be England. Nika feels upset, until Uncle Bohdan tells her about a match in Kiev during the Second World War. As Nika listens, she becomes more and more proud of her country and is determined to rally her side.