Following Dassu's award-winning debut, 'Boy, Everywhere', this title picks up on the story of Syrian refugee, Sami, and his new friends at school in Greater Manchester. The boys love football, Mark's mother has just won the lottery and moved to an amazing house, and they're all looking forward to a great summer. But Aadam, an unaccompanied minor who is illegally working for cash at Mark's home, is accused of stealing, and the boys find themselves fighting injustice and racism at home as well as at school. They work together to raise the money Aadam needs to fight his threatened deportation and to prove his innocence. Meanwhile, Ali, the lead character, is struggling with the sudden reappearance of the father who walked out on his family, along with his stepbrother, who turns up at Ali's school (and is a great footballer). Dassu sensitively depicts the emotional turmoil provoked in Ali by his father's absence and re-emergence and tracks his journey through resentment, rage and jealousy, until he is able to come to terms with the new state of things and 'grow up' into acceptance and a way forward.

Author, A. M. Dassu

Illustrated by Daby Zainab Faidhi

Cover designer, Sheila Smallwood