Specky Magee & the Great Footy Contest

by Felice Arena, Garry Lyon, Garry Lyon Felice Arena

Book Overview

Name: Simon 'SPECKY' Magee. Age: 13. Code: Australian Rules Football. Team: Booyong High Lions, Under 14's. Position played: Star forward. Known for his SPEC-tacular marking ability and for kicking plenty of goals. What to expect this season: Specky comes face to face with a tough, talented player by the name of Derek 'Screamer' Johnson. He was responsible for having Specky sent off during a game last season. The two boys become bitter rivals and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014330061X
• ISBN13: 9780143300618
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

SENSATIONAL SPECKY ! ! ! !

I thought Specky Magee and the great footy contest was a great book, it was a good read because once i read the first page i couldnt get enough of it and i read it till the end. It is a great book about Australian rules football but you dont need to be an aussie to understand it because the Australian rules football isnt the only part of the book, it had a lot of different plots. I liked this book because it wasnt all about football it had the relationships Secky had with his Family, Friends and enemys. Overall it was a great book, i reccomend it for kids between the age of 7 and 13. I give this sensational book a rating of 5 stars.

Specky rules!

This is a good book for kids who like sports novels. If you don't know anything about Australian football it's a little confusing at first but you get it pretty quick. The other plots besides the footy are about his friends and his parents, and they are really interesting. And not common in kids' books, so that's cool. There are three books in this series and they are co wrote by an ex footy star and his childhood friend who is a writer. They do funny introductions in the beginning of the books so don't forget to read the paragraphs where they make fun of each other a bit.