Product Description

Jess just wants to play football but her wedding-obsessed parents have other ideas so she hides it from them. But when Jess and her friend Jules join a ladies team and get spotted by a talent scout, it all kicks off...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1469234 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 176 pages

From the Publisher
Teen novel based on script and film of the highly successful and popular Bend It Like Beckham film

Perfect subject for Bite: contemporary teens in multicultural London combined with football and David Beckham!

Script by Gurinder Chadha of 'Bhaji on the Beach' and 'What's Cooking' fame.

About the Author
Narinder Dhami is the author of Starring Alice Mackenzie, published by Harpercollins and second prizewinner in the TSB Birmingham Children's Book Award 1996. She is also a contributor to several bestselling series, The Sleepover Club (Collins), Animal Ark Pets (Hodder) and Animal Crackers (Transworld). She was a primary teacher until 1990, when she began writing full time. She lives with her husband in Cambridge.