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When Saturday Comes
- Author
- Tony Bradman
- Narrator
- David Thorpe
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 9 May 2024
- Run Time
- 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Divorce, separation, family break-up, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Life skills and choices, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Boys and men, Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Parents
What to expect
A young boy’s relationship with his struggling dad is strained when he is forced to choose between playing football and quality time in this sensitively told story from award-winning writer Tony Bradman.
Daniel had a hard time when his parents split up and his dad started working abroad. He had to move and start at a new school, but things changed for the better when he started playing football for the Haybrook Rockets. This season the team are in with a chance of winning the Championship, but just as things are looking up for Daniel his dad comes back and the only time he can meet up is a Saturday morning – when Daniel plays football. He doesn’t want to let his dad or his team down, so what is Daniel going to do?
Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
Critics Review
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"A sweet, relatable tale about a football-mad lad who's in a dilemma over his deadbeat dad … Explores the consequences … With clarity and sensitivity." – The Times
"Harnessing all the familiar feelings and frustrations of children caught between warring parents, Bradman brings us a story full of warmth, insight and wisdom, with the added poignancy of Rex’s expressive and emotive artwork." – Lancaster Guardian
"A sensitively told story about being caught in the middle of a family separation, and how friendship and football change things for the better … A short book that packs an emotional punch." — The School Librarian
"A story that will be full of very real dilemmas for many children who have a parent living away from them and it’s good to read a story in which the consequences are presented so sympathetically whilst at the same time illustrating that there aren’t simple answers." – The Letterpress Project
"Harnessing all the familiar feelings and frustrations of children caught between warring parents, Bradman brings us a story full of warmth, insight and wisdom, with the added poignancy of Rex’s expressive and emotive artwork." – Book-marked
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Details
- Author
- Tony Bradman
- Narrator
- David Thorpe
- Duration
- 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 May 2024
- ISBN
- 9780008700799
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Divorce, separation, family break-up, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Life skills and choices, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Boys and men, Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Parents
Synopsis
A young boy’s relationship with his struggling dad is strained when he is forced to choose between playing football and quality time in this sensitively told story from award-winning writer Tony Bradman. Daniel had a hard time when his parents split up and his dad started working abroad. He had to move and start at a new school, but things changed for the better when he started playing football for the Haybrook Rockets. This season the team are in with a chance of winning the Championship, but just as things are looking up for Daniel his dad comes back and the only time he can meet up is a Saturday morning – when Daniel plays football. He doesn’t want to let his dad or his team down, so what is Daniel going to do? Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
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