BOOK REVIEW: Born To play-Jamie Johnson(Dan Freedman)

Book: Born To Play

Author: Dan Freedman

Rating: 4.5/10

Recomeneded age: 7-8

This book is clearly aimed at younger children who like football. The story follows Jamie Johnson a new kid at his school with a natural talent for football. Unfortuneatly for him that means certain people have it in for him, such as  Bryn and Tyler two bestfriends one of which play the same position as Jamie. But soon that will change as they relise that He isn't just good at football, he's a genius at football. suddenly he's one of the main players in their team at lunch and in the schools and he shows real sportsmanship when in one of the games the schools playing he gives up a clear goal and win to allow help to a injured opponent. Who Happens to be the son of the managor of Jamies favourite club, Hawkstone united. Jamie finds himself given a postion as a mascot for their upcoming cup game and as the warm up gets underway leon tibbs the angry keeper taunts him about being unable to score. Now his time had come. he fires a load of shots that leon only just saves and the whole crowd turns to watch. Then as leon insults him once more he turns around and does a overhead kck straight into the goal.

Although this book is clearly aimed at younger children and is quite short due to it being a 2-in-1 book special. I will admit that I actually found it an enjoyable short read. Purely because I don't normally read books like that and it made a nice change.

I hope you found this review helpful,

The Devonian  Reviewer

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