This is the first in the author's new 'Dream Team' series and future books will each focus on another of Jaz's friends. And of course, the message that girls can do anything is an absolutely great one, and I loved seeing the Bramrock Stars proving girls can play football too. I didn’t play sports as a child for similar reasons to Jaz and I wish I had a friend like her who encouraged everyone to give it a try and do their best.

Since Goodreads doesn't allow half stars, I went back and forth for ages trying to decide whether to knock it down to a 3 or boost it up to a 4.This timely and heart-warming story about teamwork, self-belief and following your passions in the face of life’s up and downs is likely to score big with readers aged 8-11. The football team she forms is also full of amazing characters and I cannot wait to read more from The Dream Team series. Thank you to the author, NG UK and the publishers for the opportunity it read an E-Arc of this fantastic story.

This is a funny book but there are also many opportunities to learn about football and real-life women football players. This is an inclusive and empowering tale with a real-life feel that will appeal to fans of Cath Howe and Jacqueline Wilson.I mention all these profound takeaways but want to emphasise that the story is not too heavy handed, simply a cracking good middle grade romp, with relatable characters across generations portraying some of the heart-aching challenges they face and the heart-warming support that they show one another. Thinking carefully about how to sell the idea to her classmates, Jaz pours heart and soul into rallying a team of girls to prepare for the tournament. However there are too many characters to get a real sense of who is who here and some quite stereotypical while the plot fairly predictable but I would still read on.

While this isn’t a book that is likely to become a new classic, Sophie would still recommend it to young readers, especially sports fans, and she still plans to pick up the next book in the series to see how the Bamrock Stars story continues.

With a summer of football fever on its way and girls’ football growing more popular than ever, this is an empowering book with a dynamic and entertaining main character who shows what can happen when somebody leads the way in a new sporting initiative. With her parent's constant arguments and several of her teachers endlessly irritated by Jaz's enthusiastic and sometimes untamed nature, she's having a rough year. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous and present perfect simple for general experience.