Charlie Merrick's misfits in fouls, friends, and my world cup
By: written & illustrated by Dave Cousins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780192736598; 9780192737939
Subjects: Soccer stories; Juvenile fiction
Description: Charlie loves football. He watches it, memorizes facts about it, and he's even the captain of the local youth team, North Star Galaxy. When Charlie discovers that youth teams are being selected to play in exhibition matches at the World Cup tournament later that year he decides to enter North Star. There's one problem. He's got to prove that North Star deserve a place at the tournament and that's not easy when your team are kind of rubbish at football.