Zombie XI - The Boy Who Got Sick of Warming the Bench (Striker, 4, Band 4) - Softcover

Leonard sits on the substitutes’ bench, and is never asked to play. It’s not as if the Ducie High football team is any good: they get beaten, time after time. Then everything changes. After a game near a nuclear power plant, a weird energy passes through Leonard, and that night in bed he is visited by zombies... The ghostly players from the winning 1966 England World Cup team tell him that if he follows their instructions, not only will he get off the bench, but Ducie High XI will start to take control. Leonard obeys, and the team’s prospects surge. But what is the price of the zombies’ involvement? How high will that price be—and what pound of living flesh will they demand? A perfect mix of humour and thrills, football, friendship, family and cross-cultural teen relationships all come together in this funny drama.