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    Sports Day
    Sports Day
    Sports Day
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    Sports Day

    By Sam Kerr, Fiona Harris and Aki Fukuoka

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    Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams.
     
    It’s official! Eleven-year-old Sam Kerr is a fully-fledged soccer tragic! So, when the school’s annual Sports Day comes around, she is disappointed when soccer isn’t on the list of activities.
     
    Sam goes on a mission to get her beloved game added to the program. With help from her best friends, Indi and Dylan, she petitions her classmates to create the first-ever soccer team in the history of her school. But will Chelsea stir up trouble and ruin everything?
     
    On the home front, Sam and her siblings are organising a surprise party for their parents’ wedding anniversary. But things aren’t going to plan! And with her team’s grand final just around the corner, there’s a lot to deal with … even for a soccer superstar in the making!
     
    ‘A fun book packed with cool illustrations. It follows themes of family and perseverance that will totes leave you feeling inspired!’ Total Girl on The Flip Out
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Australia
    Release dateMar 30, 2022
    ISBN9781761100925
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    Sam Kerr

    Sam Kerr is the captain of the Australian women’s national soccer team – the Matildas – and a leading goal scorer for Chelsea in the English FA Women’s Super League. She burst onto the W-League scene as a fifteen-year-old playing with Perth Glory. In 2016, she played for the Matildas at the Olympics in Brazil, and she was the top goal scorer in the 2017 Tournament of Nations. Since joining Chelsea in 2019, Sam has positioned herself as one of the best female strikers in the world. She was named 2018 Young Australian of the Year. In 2021, Sam became the Matildas all-time top goal scorer at the Tokyo Olympics, and in 2023, helped the Matildas achieve their best-ever result at a Women’s World Cup. IG: @samanthakerr20; @samkerrfootball

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      Sports Day - Sam Kerr

      CHAPTER ONE

      EAST FREMANTLE PRIMARY SCHOOL

      MONDAY

      9.05 am

      ‘Did you go to the MCG?’

      ‘Yeah!’ Dylan says. ‘We saw the Carlton–Melbourne game.’

      ‘No way!’ I squeal.

      I stare at my best friend in amazement. I’m so jealous I can hardly breathe! I mean, it’s only one of my biggest dreams in the WORLD to go to Melbourne one day and watch a game at the actual Melbourne Cricket Ground, the place where AFL football began!

      Dylan grins. ‘Yeah, it was awesome.’

      It’s day one of term two and the whole school has gathered in the hall for our first assembly. Three hundred students are all sitting cross-legged on the cold hardwood floor waiting for it to begin, and the noise echoes around the hall and bounces off the walls. It sounds like Subiaco Oval on game day in here! The preps are definitely the loudest. I can hear them all the way from the back of the hall where us Grade Sixers always sit.

      I’m wedged in between my two best friends, Dylan and Indi, and Dylan has just been telling us about his trip to Melbourne over the Easter holidays.

      ‘Aaaaghhh!’ I groan, grabbing my ankles and rocking backwards on the floor. ‘I’m SO jealous!’

      ‘Careful!’

      I glance behind me and see that I’ve almost fallen straight into Chelsea’s lap.

      ‘Sorry,’ I giggle.

      A couple of months ago I would never have dared giggle at the school’s bully, Chelsea Flint. But I’m not as scared of her as I used to be now that we’re on the same soccer team. Chelsea glares at me for a moment, then goes back to whispering with her best friend, Nikita.

      ‘I brought you a record from the game,’ Dylan tells me. ‘I’ll give it to you at recess.’

      ‘Thanks,’ I say. ‘I guess it’s the next best thing to being there… kind of.’

      Indi whacks me on the leg. ‘What are you whinging about?’ she cries. ‘You caught the biggest fish anyone at the caravan park has seen in twenty years!’

      The Pappas family has a caravan at the Myalup Beach Caravan Park and this time I tagged along on their Easter break. Indi’s dad and two of her brothers, George and Ari, took me fishing and I caught a whopping big Samson fish, which was super exciting. Indi hates fishing so she stayed back with her mum and her big sister, Rena, at the caravan and read her Harry Potter book instead.

      I beam. ‘Yeah, I did.’

      ‘My dad spent the whole holiday teasing George and Ari because Sam’s fish was bigger than theirs,’ Indi tells Dylan. ‘They were gutted.’ She pauses and grins. ‘Get it? Gutted?’

      Dylan and I roll our eyes. ‘Yeah, we get it,’ I say.

      ‘I know you didn’t see a game at the MTG, but we still had a great holiday, didn’t we?’ Indi says, pretending to be hurt.

      ‘It’s the MCG, not MTG,’ I say, laughing, ‘and yes, I had the BEST holiday with you!’ I had the best time back at home, too. Dad surprised me by taking me to watch my first professional soccer game in Perth. It was amazing! They were SO fast, and their passing was sensational! I spent a lot of time watching the players’ feet and picked up a few tips and tricks to use myself when I’m back playing with my team, the Knights.

      I sigh as I watch our Principal, Mrs Godfrey, walk to the microphone at the front of the hall and hold up her hand, the signal for us all to stop talking so she can start the boring assembly.

      ‘Good morning, everyone,’ Mrs Godfrey says. ‘I hope you all had a lovely break and are looking forward to an exciting term two!’

      As Mrs Godfrey starts talking about dates for maths competitions and renovations on the school playground, my mind wanders and I start to wriggle around on the hard, cold floor. After two weeks of being free to run around and kick a ball as much as I wanted, it’s not easy having to sit still for so long.

      I look over to the side of the hall where all the teachers are standing along the windows and see Mr Morton frowning at me. I instantly stop my wriggling.

      Indi suddenly gasps beside me and I turn to look at her. ‘What?’

      ‘Did you hear what Mrs Godfrey just said?’ Indi whispers, her eyes wide.

      ‘No, what?’

      ‘Auditions for the school play are next week!’ Indi says in a high-pitched whispery voice. ‘Peter Pan!’

      ‘You have to audition!’ I whisper.

      ‘I know! I’d LOVE to play the role of Peter Pan!’ Indi says, her high-pitched whispery voice getting louder by the second.

      A girl in our class, Yvie, turns around and frowns at us. ‘SSSSHHHHH!’

      I turn back to Mrs Godfrey and notice that she’s saying something involving the word ‘sport’.

      ‘What’s she saying?’ I whisper to Dylan.

      He turns to me and frowns. ‘Listen and you’ll hear!’

      ‘… and I know Sports Day is one of the biggest events in the school year,’ Mrs Godfrey continues, ‘so I’m sure you’ll all want to sign up for your favourite activity on the day.’

      Sports Day! Awesome!

      ‘I’m going to invite our new sports teacher, Miss McLeish, to come

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