After Mindy is busted and forced to retire as Hit Girl, Dave joins a group of amateur superheroes led by Col. This book would make an excellent discussion topic for classes, looking at children in other cultures, poverty, exploitation, and even natural disasters. As a reader, you are carried through the book by a real compassion for Budi and also the author’s humour, which acts as light-hearted relief in the story and doesn’t distract from the matter in hand. In April 2010, Aaron Taylor-Johnson (as Aaron Johnson), Chloë Grace Moretz and Christopher Mintz-Plasse were announced to have been respectively cast as Kick-Ass, Hit-Girl and Red Mist, having been cast in 2008; Mintz-Plasse said of the creators of the film that in the lead-up to the film's release they were wondering whether a distributor would pick up the movie. This book is endorsed by Amnesty International and the reasons for this are made explicitly clear throughout.

He then grows far more confident as a person and that story also teaches Budi to look past all his difficulties - in terms of being poor and having his blood condition - and follow his dreams if that is solely what he wants to do and it will pay off. Mintz-Plasse expressed relief that scenes depicting sexual assault from the comic book would not be included in the film and went on to compare the gang violence in the story to the film The Warriors. I loved reading about Budi and Johnson creates his world brilliantly- you truly come to inhabit his life, feel his hopes and anxieties and care for him and his family. This year’s Challenge is all about sport and play, and this book is the perfect read to get started with. This isn't a perfect book, by any means, but I enjoyed the process and it is an impressive shot for a debut.

One of his jobs is sewing, hence the sewn writing on the cover for the word KICK and the sewn thread design through the book at the opening of chapters. Kisahnya sederhana, tapi rasanya tak adil saja kalau kubilang 'sederhana' tanpa embel-embel lainnya, karena memang tidak sesederhana yang dibayangkan, ada banyak bagian menarik, kesannya biasa tapi memiliki filosofi yang luarbiasa— sederhana tapi bermakna, aku sangat menyukai itu. Also Budi is a budding (excuse the pun) footballer and plays football whenever he can, commentating on his play in his head. His family can not afford food some days in the week and when they do eat it is just rice and vegetables.

Actually, Kick was tormented by her lack of wholesomeness, and we hear so much about her “dazzling smile” that one is tempted to elevate this biography into that rarest and most exclusive genre of life-writing: the hagiography.I understand why the publishers have done it because they want the book to appeal to the audience which the book is written for.

It had too much more than I expected from a children's book about football, which I have dealt with a lot lately. Chair of the Judges, Julia Eccleshare said: “Kick is an adventure story that connects UK readers with a boy living a completely different and tough life halfway across the world; it is a book full of humour and heart.I can see other children having the same problem, especially those who are not familiar with popular football teams and players.