This text takes young readers behind the scenes of their favourite professional sport - football! Discover the ins and outs and the hustle and bustle of a typical match day. From fantastic fan experiences and player arrivals to groundskeepers preparing the pitch and broadcasting logistics, readers will discover that pulling off a top sporting event event is a big job! The action-packed photographs combined with an accessible reading level and the high-interest content will be certain to appeal to a wide range of young readers, including reluctant and struggling readers.
Thomas Kingsley Troupe Book order






- 2023
- 2022
Game, Set, Match! Learn how to play tennis through narrative nonfiction, Fun Facts, infographics, a glossary, and more!
- 2022
Hedgehog Hijinx
- 72 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Wally Featherby loves animals. He has several pets, including a frog, a tarantula, a hedgehog named Mimi and a parrot named Golly. But one day while teaching Golly to say Mimi's name, something strange happens. His family starts claiming to see Mimi all over the house, even though she's still in his room. Wally's friend, Axado, even calls to say Mimi is in her garden. When the friends investigate the mystery, they discover hundreds of hedgehogs overrunning the city! What's going on? What's causing the multiplying Mimis? And how will Wally and Axado stop the hedgehog horde?
- 2021
Examines the world of school through poems meant for rapping. Includes suggestions for creating raps about school.
- 2021
"Combining musical rhythms and scientific information, students will explore the human body through poems meant for rapping"--
- 2021
Explores the world of friendship through poems meant for rapping. Includes suggestions for how to create raps about friends.
- 2021
"Combining musical rhythms and scientific information, students will explore space through poems meant for rapping"--
- 2021
Don't Go in the Basement!
- 72 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Marisa and Lorenzo Conchito and their friends want to make an old-fashioned vampire movie. Luckily their friend Jeff knows just the place to film it. His uncle Felix was an actor in several old horror movies, and his creepy old mansion is the perfect location. Felix is happy to let them film their movie at his house. He has just one “Don’t go in the basement!” What secrets could Felix be hiding in the basement? And why does he sleep so much during the day?
- 2021
Haunt and Seek
- 136 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Ever since Ben Tajima found a toy boat on the Chicago Riverwalk, strange things have been happening. Ben keeps seeing a ghostly boy everywhere: the swimming pool, the living room . . . But who is the boy? What is he looking for? And what will happen when he finds it?