Twelve-year-old Sam has soccer fever. He lives with eccentric Auntie Ashmara and Ronaldo his dog. His best friend is Goose, Captain of the local soccer team ... that is, until soccer crazed Jessica Bowles moves in next door. Sam soon discovers that there is more to life than just soccer...
Steven Herrick is an Australian poet and author who has published twenty books for children and young adults. His books have twice won the NSW Premiers Literary Award (2000, 2005) and have been shortlisted six times for Book of the Year in the Children's Book Council of Australia Book Awards.
He regularly tours throughout Australia, Asia and Europe performing his work in schools and at festivals.
He is an avid football (soccer) fan and bicyclist who lives in the Blue Mountains with his wife, Cathie, a bellydance teacher. They have two adult sons, Jack and Joe.
