The Boyhood of Burglar Bill

✍ Scribed by Ahlberg, Allan

• Book ID: 107093965
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141913537

✦ Synopsis

Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. The boys from the bottom pitch get a team up, but there's no chance they'll win, of course. They're just the odds and sods -- one of them is even a girl -- but they're all football crazy and ready and eager to beat off the opposition.A funny and moving story of football and friendship in a world when the streets were full of kids and empty of cars. Not only for boys -- and girls -- of 9+, there's a real pull of nostalgia for adults as well. And, of course, for all lovers of football, whether on the pitch or in the park.