Peter Kalu: 3 books

Adele is a star soccer player with a rotten family, an aching heart, and an impossible frenemy. As pressures at school and home mount, will she overcome all or will she crash and burn? When everything collapses, Adele realizes she can only rely on herself in this feminine take on the soccer world, being a teenager, and figuring out who you are.

Marcus is the best player in his soccer team. There's a real chance he'll be signed by Manchester United. But when he discovers he may be losing his hearing, his world falls to pieces and he has to put them back together on his own. A powerful, authentic novel with an insider view on teenage disability and the different ways in which we can handle it.

Leonard sits on the bench, never asked to play. One night he is visited by zombies—the ghostly players from the winning 1966 England World Cup team, in fact. They tell him that if he follows their instructions, he get off the bench, and his team's prospects surge. But what is the price?