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Lily and the Rockets
by Rebecca Stevens - £6.99 Chicken House (2019)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781912626120 | ISBN 10: 1912626128
A timeless story of football, friendship and determination from acclaimed author Rebecca Stevens.
It's 1918. 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 ...
(Price & availability last checked: September 2019)
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