num_pages: 136
description: Twelve-year-old Sam has soccer fever. He lives with eccentric Auntie Ashmara and Ronaldo his dog. His best friend is Goose, Captain of the local soccer team ... that is, until soccer crazed Jessica Bowles moves in next door. Sam soon discovers that there is more to life than just soccer...
language: English
title: The Spangled Drongo: A Verse Novel
titlecomplete: The Spangled Drongo: A Verse Novel
ratings_count: 22
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: New South Wales Premier's Literary Award
category: Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Literature
publisher: Univ of Queensland Pr