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|title=The Kick Off
|buy=Yes
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|pages=192
|publisher=Scholastic
|date=June 2007
|isbn=978-0439944304
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Jamie Johnson has just moved schools. He was captain of his previous school's football team and he is desperate to make his mark at Kingfield. Jamie lives and breathes football. He doesn't think of anything else. And he's determined to prove his undoubted ability. For Jamie is talented. Quick, tactically aware and committed, he has the potential to go all the way. But has he got the temperament? Sent off twice in his first two matches at Kingfield, it seems perhaps he hasn't. Jamie doesn't blame himself you see - he blames his mother for making him do his homework, a team-mate for selfish play, an opponent for winding him up. It's always someone else's fault and never Jamie's. Jamie's grandfather, Mike, just might have the answer in a training manual written years ago for him by one of the country's best football scouts...
It's an easy book to read. I read it in a couple of hours and it took my son two or three evenings. If they're keen readers already, then ''The Kick Off'' might prove too light for them. But for reluctant readers and all junior football fans, it comes highly recommended.
My thanks to the nice people at Scholastic for sending the book. We also have a review of [[Golden Goal (Jamie Johnson) by Dan Freedman]]
[[:Category:Michael Morpurgo|Michael Morpurgo's]] [[Billy the Kid]] blends football and war with the story of Billy, a veteran of both Chelsea FC and World War I.
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|name=Magda
|verb=said
|comment= What age? Would a football and rugby obsessed 7 year old enjoy it if read tohim by a parent?
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{{comment
|name=Jill
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|comment= Yes! The boy is in his second or third year at senior school, but any footballing child would like it.
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{{comment
|name=Maurice Leibman
|verb=said
|comment= A book at last in the Teddy Lester mold. Could not put them down when I was a kid. Lets hope he writes a lot more, and perhaps we will get another British writer of significance.
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|name=Steve Johnson
|verb=said
|comment= dear jill,
This book is just perfect for football mad kids. I have bought it for my son for christmas, he will love it as his name is Jamie johnson too. His also football mad.
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{{comment
|name=Jill
|verb=replied
|comment= Ooh, how cool is that? A book about football mad Jamie Johnson for football mad Jamie Johnson!
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