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Penguin Readers Level 3: Jaz Santos vs. The World (ELT Graded Reader)

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The Dream Team: Jaz Santos vs. the World

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A great book about a girls' football team - it's exciting, original and heart-warming

A stunning and inspiring story that I raced through, cheering Jaz and her friends on as I read. Priscilla Mante is an author to watch.

Aisha Bushby, author of A Pocketful of Stars

An empowering read of friendship, family and football [...] that will encourage dreamers everywhere to shoot for the stars!

Maria Kuzniar, author of The Ship of Shadows

Exactly the book that my heart needed right now. It's an uplifting, fun celebration of girls in sport, and it's impossible not to root for Jaz and the rest of her team. I wish this book had been available when I was growing up!

Things begin to go wrong for Jaz when her mum moves out, leaving her family behind. Determined to fix everything, she creates her own girl's football team to be the star her mum always wanted. 
 
First, she recruits a brilliant new group of friends to join her team. But after a shaky start, seven very different personalities to manage, and no one at school taking the girls' team seriously, football stardom feels a long way off. Can Jaz keep everyone - and herself - out of trouble long enough to convince her mum to come home? 
 
A relatable, inclusive story about families, unlikely friendships and girl power.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHILDREN'S SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 
 
The first book in THE DREAM TEAM series. 
 
'Exciting, original and heart-warming' - Jacqueline Wilson 
 
'Priscilla Mante is an author to watch' - Aisha Bushby 
 
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A relatable, inclusive story about families, unlikely friendships and girl power. Perfect for fans of Ella on the Outside and Jacqueline Wilson. 
 
Olá! I'm Jasmina Santos-Campbell (but you can call me Jaz). You've probably heard of me and my football team the Bramrock Stars before. No? Well, you will soon because we're almost famous! 
 
Forming the Stars was my genius idea - you see I need to prove to Mãe (that's my mum!) that I'm a football star so she'll want to come back home. 
 
The idea was the easy part, though. Now I've got a team of seven very different girls and we need to work together, to be taken seriously as footballers. 
 
We are the DREAM TEAM and we're going to show the world that girls CAN play football!

Priscilla Mante is a London based writer from Glasgow. She spent several years delivering arts, literacy and cultural programmes to young people and currently works in corporate communications. She is the author of Jaz Santos vs the World and Charligh Green vs the Spotlight.

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A great book about a girls' football team - it's exciting, original and heart-warming

A stunning and inspiring story that I raced through, cheering Jaz and her friends on as I read. Priscilla Mante is an author to watch.

An empowering read of friendship, family and football [...] that will encourage dreamers everywhere to shoot for the stars!

Exactly the book that my heart needed right now. It's an uplifting, fun celebration of girls in sport, and it's impossible not to root for Jaz and the rest of her team. I wish this book had been available when I was growing up!

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