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Jamie Johnson #5

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  The World Cup Finals beckon for Jamie Johnson but first he must answer a huge question:  

208 pages, Paperback

First published July 7, 2011

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Dan Freedman

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Author 10 books8 followers
February 28, 2024
Jamie Johnson has a football gift. He played above his age as a child and was on the world stage as a young man. His success reflected hard work and some luck. After being injured in a car accident, he worked very hard to make a full recovery and continue his football career, but testifying against another international player for match-fixing came back to haunt him. A vicious payback tackle on the field causes a career-ending in the jury.
Jamie must decide if he should withdraw from the team, let everyone down, or play on in the final and risk permanent injury. What does Jamie decide?
I enjoy the details about his campaign and hard work. Jamie had some hard questions to answer, and his thoughts added richness to the story.
Recommended for readers ten years and older.
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314 reviews1 follower
July 13, 2020
This book is all about how Jamie Johnson is asked to play for both England and Scotland. He chose to play for Scotland but Matheus Bartorelli was released from prison and wants to end Jamie Johnson's career by fouling him badly. My favourite bit about this book is the determination that Jamie shows to keep on playing in the world cup. Saddly for Jamie Scotland lose to MAtheus Bartorelli's Argentina and the England to come Fourth place. My favourite character was a young girl who cheated on Jamie because of her mischevious qualities. I learnt from this book to never give up.
21 reviews
November 12, 2017
The World Cup Finals beckon for Jamie Johnson but first he must answer a huge question: Which country will he play for? With brand new characters and all the trademark jaw-dropping footy action. This was not my favourite of the JJ books but still ok.
222 reviews8 followers
December 29, 2021
An actual children's book but still one that swells me up. Don't care.

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44 reviews
December 15, 2022
In one sitting. Couldn’t put it down. Series was already amazing but this book it reached levels I didn’t know was even possible.
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12 reviews
January 25, 2023
Im not into football but this book was good and bad not bad as much
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July 24, 2024
By far, the best JJ book. A thrilling opener, driving his country through the stages of the world Cup and MORE
12 reviews
July 8, 2013
This is the last in a collection of 5 goal scoring books by Dan Freedman.

Inspired by his love of football and dislike of reading towards the end of primary and at the beginning of secondary school. He decided to write a collection of books that could engage the many boys that aren't inspired to read.

My son absolutely loved them, as he loves football and Dan onviously did his reasearch because he uses the correct terminology to relate to football throughout the book.

This book is about a young man about to embark on a professional career in football after a great but turbulent journey to get to this point. This is the match of his life and he needs to play well.

This book would attract upper KS2 boys in the same way that Jaqueline Wilson books attract a predominantly female audience.
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16 reviews
January 8, 2015
Jamie Johnson, an 18 year old boy gets a chance to play in the World Cup, wants to figure out who to play for, Scotland his late granddad's national team or where he lives, England. But he chooses England at first but later on chooses to play for Scotland. So he does his best as always and tries to get to the Final. Then will he and his team win the Finals? The theme is that choose to your hearts content and try to do your best.
6 reviews
January 25, 2018
I have read all of the books in the Jamie Johnson series, and I loved all of the books. This book in particular was very good because it includes lots of twists and turns. Jamie has to chose which country to play in the World Cup for, and his friends and family try to help him decide. When Jamie was in the verge of playing for England, he changed his mind, and ran down the tunnel to get a taxi to Scotland’s hotel.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
8 reviews
July 2, 2016
Having this as our 5th series of the book is great the only thing that isn't is that Jamie has a beckon coming up he has a big question to anwser the question is (Which country do you play for?)There has been new players in other teams so he really doesn't know.
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