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The Blurb On The Back:
Olá! I’m Jasmina Santos-Campbell (but you can call me Jaz). You’ve probably heard of me and my team the Bamrock Stars before. No? Well, you will soon because we’re almost famous!
Forming the Stars was my genius idea - you see I need to prove to Mãe (that’s my mum!) that I’m a football star so she’ll want to come back home.
The idea was the easy part, though. Now I’ve got a team of seven very different girls and we need to work together, to be taken seriously as footballers.
We are the DREAM TEAM and we’re going to show the world that girls CAN plan football!
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Priscilla Mante’s debut contemporary novel for children aged 9+ (the first in a series) is strong on the importance of organisation, teamwork and facing your fears and great at promoting women’s football while also tackling (no pun intended) the sexism that girls face in the game. However there are too many characters to get a real sense of who is who here and some quite stereotypical while the plot fairly predictable but I would still read on.
JAZ SANTOS VS THE WORLD was released in the United Kingdom on 27th May 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
Olá! I’m Jasmina Santos-Campbell (but you can call me Jaz). You’ve probably heard of me and my team the Bamrock Stars before. No? Well, you will soon because we’re almost famous!
Forming the Stars was my genius idea - you see I need to prove to Mãe (that’s my mum!) that I’m a football star so she’ll want to come back home.
The idea was the easy part, though. Now I’ve got a team of seven very different girls and we need to work together, to be taken seriously as footballers.
We are the DREAM TEAM and we’re going to show the world that girls CAN plan football!
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Priscilla Mante’s debut contemporary novel for children aged 9+ (the first in a series) is strong on the importance of organisation, teamwork and facing your fears and great at promoting women’s football while also tackling (no pun intended) the sexism that girls face in the game. However there are too many characters to get a real sense of who is who here and some quite stereotypical while the plot fairly predictable but I would still read on.
JAZ SANTOS VS THE WORLD was released in the United Kingdom on 27th May 2021. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
