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Bend It Like Beckham

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3rd November 2011

Price: £9.99

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Selected: ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444909852

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Read the novel of the global smash hit noughties film – coming to Netflix on 15th August!

If you’re 18, love football and can bend a ball like Beckham, the world must be your oyster, right? Wrong. If you’re Jesminder – 18, Indian and a girl – forget it.

Jess just wants to play football but her wedding-obsessed parents have other ideas so she hides it from them. But when Jess and her friend Jules join a women’s team and get spotted by a talent scout, it all kicks off …

The Bend it Like Beckham movie was a box-office hit, starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Bend it Like Beckham was also transformed into a musical in London’s West End.

Director Gurinder Chadha recently announced that a sequel is in the works for the film’s 25th anniversary – bring on Bend it Like Beckham 2!

Reviews

Danielle Lewis, Craigmount High, Teen Titles
This is a really excellent book -- I saw the film but the book is better!
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Sheer joy to read
Kylie Hughes, Heysham High School, Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award
Why did I like this book? Simple! It was brilliant. Hilarious and sad.
Gemma Ashcroft, 17, Boox
A brilliant read