Missy — Mark Watson

Imagine being the only girl in a school full of boys...

Missy loves football. As she and her friends get ready to start their final year of primary school, the class are excited to finally get to play 11-a-side football matches against other teams. But when a new committee in charge of school football in Scotland decides that Missy can no longer play with football with boys, Missy, her dad and her friends must embark on a series of upwards battles to prove to the committee that girls can play football alongside boys.

A story that explores prejudices based on gender, family bereavement and the importance of football.

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Mark Watson's second children's novel explores the difficulties that some still face across the world to access sport. He highlights some peoples' views of women in sport in the past and displays how it has changed through the modern era. A perfect novel for a school library; a class novel or for anybody with a passion for sport.