The Dream Team: Jaz Santos vs. the World (The Dream Team, 1)

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It will surely encourage children that they don't need to blame themselves for their parents' disagreements. The pacing was a bit strange, because the 'non sports' themes were scattered around, without an organic feel to them.

With her parent's constant arguments and several of her teachers endlessly irritated by Jaz's enthusiastic and sometimes untamed nature, she's having a rough year. The story followed Jaz Santos who decides to compete in a football competition and starts a new team. I gazed up at the luminous purple stars on my white ceiling and wished hard that I could be like one of them.Jaz Santos vs the World is the first in a new series about a girl who gathers an unlikely group of friends together to make their own girls football team. A delightful story of a young girl who just wants to play soccer (football to the rest of the world) and to keep her parents together.

Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.Definitely recommend this book especially for younger girls to see no matter what you can do anything and be whoever you want to be.

Sexism is addressed head-on and I particularly enjoyed the real-life information about women's football that is worked into the story. It’s so looking forward to continuing on in this series, first of all with Charligh’s story when it comes out in May! the tricky subject of parental separation with grace, offering fictional scenarios which entertained as well as subtly pointing the way for young people to help build their resiliency. A story of real life issues from a child’s point of view, I love the realistic events that occur in this story but most of all how strong minded and determined young Jaz is, her relationship with her family and her friends can only be described as true to life which makes the book relatable for all!So, what works: the diversity and representation of the characters, the very readable prose and the positive messages for the audience. While things may not be going right in other areas of her life football gives her an escape and a way of dealing with everything else. The Author Priscilla Mante says of the book, “Girls’ football and women’s football don’t get the attention they should do and it was really important for me, through Jas, to challenge the status quo.