Lily and the Rockets

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History Time - blasts from the past
Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals
Action Adventures - chills, thrills and plenty of spills

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A timeless story of football, friendship and determination
from acclaimed author Rebecca Stevens – perfect for budding
Lionesses!
‘Girls will be galvanized to follow their dreams, break boundaries
and play football!’ SOUTH WALES EVENING POST

’… perfectly captured story of football and girls set during WW1. A historical novel not just for football fans.’ ANGELS AND URCHINS It’s 1917. Lily spends her days working in a munitions factory, her nights picking metal out of her hair, and her lunchtimes kicking a ball with her workmates. Together they form a football team, the Rockets, and a league soon follows. But when the war ends, the girls lose both their jobs and their football. Not Lily. If her only chance of being a goalie is to play with the men, then that’s what she’ll do … The perfect read for aspiring young footballers – and to cheer on England in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Based on the true story of the original Arsenal Ladies’ team, one of several female-only teams which formed during WW1, only to be met with a ban once the war ended Rebecca’s novels have been shortlisted for the Historical Association Young Quills Award and the Branford Boase Award

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This book was fiction, kind of based on true events and kind of not! Lily Dodd is the determined 14-year-old girl in this book, she wants to be a goal-keeper in a proper girls Football team. This book is set in 1917, and at the end of the war her sweetheart comes home only to a surprise...

Anonymous 08.08.2019

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