What’s on offer this term, Autumn 2024

SPOTLIGHT ON MY LATEST publication “Angel of Grasmere”
Remembrance Day 2024 – film and virtual event
Christmas Book Giving – pupil nominations
Signed Books for Christmas with FREE exclusive Christmas Card
Christmas in fiction : Resist
Christmas in fiction : Arctic Star
2025 Author visits in person / virtual
27 January 2025 10 a.m – Holocaust Memorial Day event
6 March 2025 – World Book Day 2025
NEW Angel of Grasmere resources FREE posters and resources
All year round FREE Football fiction resources – posters and certificates

SPOTLIGHT ON MY LATEST publication
“Angel of Grasmere:from Dunkirk to the Fells”
By Tom Palmer Published NOW by Barrington Stoke.

July 1940 – Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved brother in the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk and she and her friends scour the hills around their Westmorland home, watching for any signs of the long-dreaded Nazi invasion.

But as the war drags on, with little good news from the front, the locals become aware of someone carrying out anonymous acts of kindness. With no one claiming credit, the village come to think of this unidentified stranger as a kind of guardian angel, but when his identity is finally revealed can Tarn come to terms with the truth…?

Links – Effect of war on countryside, Evacuees,Bombing of cities –  Manchester,Bombing of Ports- Barrow in Furness, evacuation of Allied forces from the French port of Dunkirk in 1940, Battle of Britain,Rivers.

Free resources available now … here tompalmer.co.uk/angel-of-grasmere/

• • Trailer https://youtu.be/BAwGDDuNRHk
  • Tom’s writer’s scrapbook
  • Tom’s writer’s diary
  • Interview with Tom
  • A cover prediction set of worksheets
  • Angel paper dolls activity
  • Settings map worksheet
  • Playscript

“In the darkest of days, that’s when the miracles begin”

Buy Signed copies here www.thethoughtfulspotbooks.com/tom-palmer-books

More here

Remembrance Day 2024 

My annual Remembrance Day film – Hundreds of Allied planes crashed in the countryside during the defence of Britain during the Second World War, some miles away from villages and roads, many hundreds of feet high up mountains and fells. Thousands of airmen were killed and severely injured. Many sites have memorials to those lost. Tom will speak from the site of one of these air crashes – available from 1 November link to come.

Monday 11 November 2024 – Remembrance virtual event

10.20am – 11.05am with a two-minute silence to mark the Armistice

Art, music, poetry, veteran interviews creating a unique, interactive, live-streamed experience

Upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3

Live Zoom webinar with National Literacy Trust and the Royal British Legion – Book now 

More about Remembrance Day here

Christmas Book Giving

For over ten years I have asked teachers, TAs and librarians if they would be kind enough to nominate a child they think would benefit from the gift of a book for Christmas. My family and I would like to do the same for Christmas 2024.  Closing Date Sunday 17th November 2024

Find out how to and nominate a pupil here … https://tompalmer.co.uk/christmas-book-giving-2024/ 

Signed Books for Christmas with FREE exclusive Christmas Card 

Signed and dedicated copies of my books make an ideal Christmas gift. 

They are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot”  here.

And each order made through the Thoughtful Spot will come with a special Christmas Card created by our good friend and illustrator James Innerdale  to mark the publication of a new book of mine and a bookmark.

Books can be simply signed by me or using their website you can specify a message like “To Nadiya, Happy Christmas” for me to add.

Order now here.

More here

Christmas in Fiction : Resist

Audrey Hepburn’s childhood story of resistance in the Second World War against the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands inspired my children’s book Resist. 

Silent Night is an extra special short story I have written about Audrey’s secret Christmas mission,

FREE to read or watch me read the story from here

More about Resist here

Christmas in fiction : Arctic Star

Discover how the young Royal Navy sailors celebrate Christmas Day 1943 aboard HMS Belfast in the Arctic Circle with dinner, carols and listening to the King’s Speech in my children’s book Arctic Star.

Use these resources based on the special ChristmasChapter 19 of Arctic Star. 

• Blackout poetry challenge
• Flip book to read Chapter 19
• Watch me reading chapter 19 aboard HMS Belfast

FREE to read, download or watch me read from here 

More about Arctic Star here 

2025 Author visits in person / virtual

I am available from January 2025 for historical fiction, football or rugby author events or linking to …

• Holocaust Memorial Day  (27 January 2025– 80^th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz)
• Six Nations (Rugby Reading Game) – begins 31 January 2025

More about my author visits here

Monday 27 January 2025 – Holocaust Memorial Day

Next year’s plans are already underway with a virtual event on Monday 27 January 2025 at 10 am with the National Literacy Trust and Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and a film, story and writing challenge based around the 80^th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

More here

6 March 2025 – World Book Day – Exciting news!

I have written a new Rocky story which has been selected as one of the books you can choose with your World Book Day 2025 vouchers.

In Rocky Takes the Lead – will Rocky be able to take the lead and show both her British and her American friends that they’re all united by football?

Available from February 2025 for World Book Day – 6 March 2025
£1 / E1.50 or your WBD voucher

More about Rocky here

More about World Book Day 2025 here

NEW Angel of Grasmere resources

Free Chapter 1, Grasmere trail map, playscript, Herdwick Sheep Craft Activity and lots more literacy resources for the classroom available to download from here.

FREE Poster packs available on request from here. 

Download high-res posters by clicking on the images below:

All year round FREE Football fiction resources – posters and certificates

I have FREE certificates I can sign for readers of all my books.

• Football Academy
• Foul Play
• Roy and Rocky of the Rovers
• My History Books

Tell me here if your pupils have read a whole series and you can receive a special signed certificate to present to them.

If you would like a football poster pack please visit my poster order page here 

More football resources here

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Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here. 

With an extra special Christmas or birthday card from me on request!

Overseas :
Australia: Boomerang
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshop HIVE

Schools bumper 33 book pack offer here

33 books
£194 saving £63 – over 25% discount
FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk

Schools class set offer here.

15 copies 20%+ discount
30 copies 25%+ discount
100 copies 30% + discount

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Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

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PRIVACY & COOKIES POLICY                            TERMS & CONDITIONS

For over ten years I have asked teachers, TAs and librarians if they would be kind enough to nominate a child they think would benefit from the gift of a book for Christmas.

My family and I would like to do the same for Christmas 2024. 

The Christmas Books

Each book will be personally dedicated, signed, gift-wrapped and will come with a Christmas card from me.  The Christmas card will have this year’s exclusive illustration taking inspiration from one of my books by the wonderful Yorkshire artist James Innerdale.

I will send a personal Christmas card to each nominee and a poster pack for each school regardless of whether or not their application is sucessful.

The Children
Our idea is to work with schools and libraries to help us gift books to fifty children.  Short applications are invited from teachers, TAs and librarians, nominating children as follows:

• who have had a difficult year at school or home in the hope that a book would be a boost for them
• who do not have any books at home
• who one special book might help engage them with a lifetime of reading for pleasure.

Applying teachers, TAs and librarians are also asked to select which of my books for children they feel is most appropriate.

Their Privacy
All nominations will be kept in confidence and it is up to you exactly how privately you wish to give the books over.

You will be under no obligation to disclose to the child why they are receiving the book or to present it to them publicly.

The nomination process for applying adults
If you’d like to nominate a child, please email the following information as follows to admin@tompalmer.co.uk by Sunday 17th November 2024: 

1. the child’s name (this will not be published and will be kept in full confidence)
2. a short paragraph explaining why you are nominating that child (this will not be published and will be kept in full confidence)
3. your choice of book for them from one of my books listed at https://tompalmer.co.uk/about-tom/books-for-children/.
4. your name and school address (where I will send the book)

We will respond ASAP to all applications as soon as we can on receipt.  My family and I will choose the recipients and notify all applying teachers, TAs and librarians of the outcome by the end of November and we aim to have the books dispatched to schools in the first week of December 2024.

I am sorry, we cannot promise to send a book to every child nominated. We have set an upper limit of 50.  But I will send a personal Christmas card to each nominee and a poster pack for each school regardless of whether or not their application is successful.

(For more information about special offer schools book packs, FREE signed bookplates and signed books to purchase as gifts see here. )

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot”  here.

Overseas : FREE Delivery worldwide from The Book Depository.
Australia: Boomerang   
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers       
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my  bookshop  or support your local bookshop HIVE

Schools bumper 35 book pack offer here

35 books
£190 saving £60 – over 20% discount
FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk.

Schools class set offer here.

15 copies 20%+ discount
30 copies 25%+ discount
100 copies 30% + discount

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

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This year’s Remembrance Sunday will be marked on 10^th November, with Armistice Day on Monday 11^th November 2024.

To help schools mark the occasion and link it to developing literacy in the classroom, I will be offering these FREE resources for schools to use based around my books …

My annual Remembrance Day film – Hundreds of Allied planes crashed in the countryside during the defence of Britain during the Second World War, some miles away from villages and roads, many hundreds of feet high up mountains and fells. Thousands of airmen were killed and severely injured. Many sites have memorials to those lost. Tom speaks from the site of one of these air crashes.
Monday 11 November 2024 –Remembrance virtual event

10.20am – 11.05am with a two-minute silence to mark the Armistice

Art, music, poetry, veteran interviews creating a unique, interactive, live-streamed experience

Upper Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3

Live Zoom webinar with National Literacy Trust and the Royal British Legion – Book now 

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My books about various sections of the Armed Forces

• Royal Navy (Arctic Star)
• Army  (Over the Line, Armistice Runner and The Last Try)
• RAF (Flyboy, Spitfire, Typhoon and Rugby Academy).  
• the Reserves and Paratroopers D-Day Dog

Angel of Grasmere is set at the start of the Second World War in Britain featuring the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk and the fear of Nazi invasion for a group of three village and evacuee children in the Lake District.

Since 2019 the red poppy has paid tribute to civilian victims of war and “acts of terrorism”, alongside the armed forces.

Resist is my historical story for children about the impact on a homefront civilian occupation in WW2, based on the real Dutch Resistance experiences of Audrey Hepburn.

My books about both World Wars and children of today’s serving members of the Armed Forces :  

• First World War – Read  Over the Line,  Flyboy and Armistice Runner
• Second World War – Read Resist, Spitfire, D-Day Dog, Arctic Star, After the War and Angel of Grasmere
• 21^st century Armed Forces – Typhoon, D-Day Dog

More WW1 Literacy Resources are available from here: tompalmer.co.uk/first-world-war-literacy-resources/

• First chapters of all my historical fiction books.
• Be a Trench Runner memory challenge game for the school hall.
• Black out poetry sheets with instructions and certificates.
• 10 discussion points about war for Y5 to Y9.
• Book cover prediction sheets with questions encouraging the children to think about what a book might be about.

More WW2 Literacy Resources are available from here: tompalmer.co.uk/second-world-war-literacy-resources/

• Downloadable posters.
• First chapters of all my historical fiction books.
• Videos about the settings of my books, filmed at the Somme and on the D-Day beaches.

Here’s a recap of materials from 2023.

• an assembly message for KS2 and KS3.  I will talk about the real First and Second World War soldiers, airmen and women and sailors that have inspired the characters in my books.  It is for use in the hall or for schools to stream throughout classrooms.

• a signed certificate to present to pupils for any work relating to Remembrance Day Download here 

• “The Barnbow Lasses” – a  FREE 3 part readaloud story with resources.  Download here. 

And you can read this great blog from Amy McKinlay, P1-3 teacher at Kettins Primary School …  How to make Remembrance Day memorable in the classroom – Scottish Book Trust

2022 Remembrance message about the  First and Second World War soldiers, airmen and women and sailors – from across the Commonwealth – that have inspired the characters in my books, particularly from India and Canada : 
My 2021 Remembrance message filmed from the Arctic Convoy War Memorial at Liverpool Parish Church

My 2020 Remembrance message filmed from my local war memorial about the real soldiers, sailors and airman who inspired my books:

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot”  here.

Overseas : FREE Delivery worldwide from The Book Depository.
Australia: Boomerang   
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers       
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my  bookshop  or support your local bookshop HIVE

Schools bumper 33 book pack
offer here

33 books
£194 saving £63 – over 25% discount
FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk

Schools class set offer here.

15 copies 20%+ discount
30 copies 25%+ discount
100 copies 30% + discount

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

Email me here for more information or use my contact form here to ask me a question.

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Monday 9 September – Sunday 24 September 2024

Fairtrade Fortnight is a great opportunity to get children thinking about where they spend their money and the difference that choice can make other people’s lives.  My children’s book “Off Side” is about fairtrade, trafficking and football.

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Fairtrade Fiction : Off Side

“Off Side” is about fairtrade, trafficking and football.

The hero of my children’s book Offside, is a boy called Kofi, who – as well as being a gifted footballer – is the son of cocoa bean farmers in Ghana.

At the beginning of the Off Side, Kofi’s family were being cheated and not paid a fair amount for their beans.

By the end they had become part of the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative which supplies chocolate manufacturers Divine.

I was very lucky, when in Ghana researching my novel Offside, that Divine took me to meet some farmers and to Akomaden School which is directly paid for by our buying Fairtrade Chocolate.

I have seen how the choice we make to buy Fairtrade chocolate improves lives: children being well-schooled, families learning to run their own businesses and  improved homes and healthcare.

Fairtrade Fortnight Resources

Free Fairtrade schools’ pack

Read Chapter One here.  

Virtual Fairtrade visits

I offer virtual and in-person school visits to talk about fair trade, reading, writing and football, linked to my book – Off Side – about a sixteen year old son of a cocoa farmer who is trafficked from Ghana to England, thinking he is going to be a famous footballer.  Having seen at first hand the difference it makes, I try to choose Fair Trade where I can.

Find out more about my Fairtrade visits here .

Football Trafficking

Off Side also looks at people trafficking, particularly the exploitation of young footballers from Africa.

Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here. 

With an extra special Christmas or birthday card from me on request!

Australia: Boomerang
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshop

Schools bumper book pack
offer

33 books for £200

Saving £73

Over 25% discount

Free Delivery

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk

Schools class set offer

15 copies 20%+ discount
30 copies 25%+ discount
100 copies 30% + discount

FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk for a quote

 

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Thank you.

PRIVACY & COOKIES POLICY                            TERMS & CONDITIONS

After the War (Barrington Stoke) Tom “This is the story of 300 children, Holocaust survivors who came to live in Cumbria in 1945, direct from the concentration camps of Europe. It is based on survivor testimonies”

D-Day Dog (Barrington Stoke)  

Tom “I wanted to think about how today’s refugees are part of our history, part of our future and that is why it is so good to welcome them to the UK”

Gus the Fantastic Football Cat (Egmont, KS1)

Tom “This is about a Syrian girl and her dad who look after a rescue cat when they arrive in the UK from Syria. The parallel of the girl taken in by a UK community and her, in turn, taking a rescue cat in is the only thing about the story that relates to her background. The rest of the story is hopefully a lot lighter, as the cat reveals it can predict World Cup football results.”

Pitch Invasion (Barrington Stoke)

Tom “This is a bit more direct. The story is about a haunted hillfort in Cornwall and a ghostbusting duo – Seth and Nadiya – who realise there is a parallel between the ghost of Iron Age refugees escaping the brutal Romans by heading west and two Syrian boys – Galip and Aylan – who have recently been taken in by a Cornish family, after tragedy in Syria. The refugees I describe could well have been some of your Iron Age ancestors, people who might have been part of Boudica’s Iceni tribe after she was killed fighting them. I wanted to think about how there are refugees now just as there always have been. People have always had to flee. Then and now.”

“Several of my latest published books have featured child refugees who have made it to the UK to be taken in by families and communities.

I did this because I have visited many schools and communities that have children who are refugees from Syria (and other troubled places in the world) and met them and heard their stories.

That – and reading books and articles about the war – motivated me to develop Yusra, Galip and Aylan as characters in my children’s books.

I did it, also, because I want children who are in all schools to be able to read about how we – in our relatively safe and stable country – can help people whose lives have been smashed to pieces and how we need to remember this country has a history of taking in and accepting refugees.”

Refugee Week June 2023

“Boat People” with the National Literacy Trust includes :

• 5 very short stories about people who have had to escape danger by boat, set in the years 1914, 1943, 1975, 2010 and today

Available in print to read aloud from here

Or to watch being read aloud by me from here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmmlG7jutI-1sTB2jvWewnZQBc-eQlddq

• an introductory assembly (15 minutes long) from me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzUXr-o3g9M
• 5 writing exercises delivered by video, relating to the stories and the theme of refugees, with worksheets for the children here
• a teachers’ guide here
• Combined powerpoint very kindly shared by Penketh High  of all the writing exercises for lesson time here.  

Certificate for your school or classroom or for individual work
Download here

Refugee Week 2022

Watch Now “NLT Refugee Week virtual event: In Conversation with Tom Palmer”  recorded from 20 June 2022 here

Certificate to share with your pupils here.

“The Girl in the Lewandowski Top” – is a FREE 5 part story about a Ukrainian Refugee in 2022 with teacher guide and worksheets. This was written for Refugee Week 2022 for the National Literacy Trust but can be used all year round.

• • • Read “The Girl in the Lewandowski Top” here
    • Teacher Guide here
    • Worksheets here

“Them” – is a FREE 5 part read aloud story set in 1945, from the point of view of the children in the Lake District community who received 300 child refugees from the Nazi concentration camps after the end of the Second World War.  This was written for Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 for the National Literacy Trust but can be used all year round.

• • • Read “Them” here
    • A powerpoint introducing “Them” here
    • 5 short films and worksheets to support “Them” story and inspire pupils to write their own responses here
    • A teacher guide with ideas and sources to support your delivery of “Them” and children’s writing here
    • 5 short films of Tom reading out loud “Them” available from here
      

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“The Question” is a FREE 5 part read aloud story set today, from the point of view of pupils meeting a Holocaust survivor at their school and asking them about their refugee experience.  This was written for Holocaust Memorial Day 2021 for the National Literacy Trust but can be used all year round.

• • •  Read “The Question” here for you to read aloud / stream / share or as a series of 5 films of Tom reading the story for you to use however suits your school here ).

You can also find out more about the Windermere children’s story in my children’s book “After the War from Auschwitz to Ambleside” here.

EDIT

Discover more about Angel of Grasmere here

Discover more here

Please catch up on the latest interview with me about writing Angel of Grasmere in my Guest Edited edition of lovereading4kids here

https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/blog/tom-palmer-our-guest-editor-of-the-month-6657

Thank you

What’s on offer this term, Summer 2024

• NEW Angel of Grasmere NEW historical fiction preview
• Book now! Online events
• Meet Me! In person events
• 6 June 2024 D-Day 80th Anniversary – read D-Day Dog and free resources
• 17 June 2024 Refugee Week
• May 2024 new audio books
• Summer 2024 NEW Rocky Race Soccer Diaries
• Autumn Term Author visits
  

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NEW Book!

Angel of Grasmere:from Dunkirk to the Fells
By Tom Palmer Published May 2024 Barrington Stoke.

July 1940 – Tarn struggles to come to terms with the loss of her beloved brother in the chaos of the British retreat at Dunkirk and she and her friends scour the hills around their Westmorland home, watching for any signs of the long-dreaded Nazi invasion.

But as the war drags on, with little good news from the front, the locals become aware of someone carrying out anonymous acts of kindness.  With no one claiming credit, the village come to think of this unidentified stranger as a kind of guardian angel, but when his identity is finally revealed can Tarn come to terms with the truth…?

“In the darkest of days, that’s when the miracles begin”

“In this powerful new novel, Tom Palmer conveys the devastating impact of war both for those who fight on the frontlines and those who are left at home to worry and grieve. Angel of Grasmere is another brilliant example from Tom of how history can be brought vividly to life for young people today in a way that they can relate to and empathise with.” Ailsa Bathgate

 Free resources available now …

• Trailer https://youtu.be/BAwGDDuNRHk
• Tom’s writer’s scrapbook
• Tom’s writer’s diary
• Interview with Tom
• A cover prediction set of worksheets
• Angel paper dolls activity
• Settings map worksheet
• A Little Lakeland Nature-read along and colour in

Discover more about it and all these free resources here https://tompalmer.co.uk/angel-of-grasmere/

Signed and dedicated copies are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot”  here.

Meet me 2024 – Online Events

Dunkirk Anniversary – A Commemoration Special with Mr Dilly and Tom Palmer

• Join Tom Palmer speaking on location from the beaches of Dunkirk and the Grasmere Fells
• Interview and conversation with Mr Dilly and Tom Palmer
• Watch footage of the Dunkirk evacuation
• Listen to pre-recorded interviews with some of the Dunkirk veterans

Catch up now here

Meet Me 2024 – In Person Events

I’m dropping in to Cumbrian bookshops for informal signings. All around 4 p.m. Please come and say hello or pre-order signed copies from:

15th @HedgehogBooks

16th @BookendsKeswick

21st @WstonesKendal

Thursday 30 May 2024 11-3pm Imperial War Museum North

Friday 31 May 2024  11-3pm Imperial War Museum London

Sat 1 June 2024 11-4pm Imperial War Museum London 

Tuesday 6 Aug 11-3pm Imperial War Museum North

Free

6 June 2024 D-Day 80th Anniversary

NEW Summer 2024 – Rocky’s Big Move

The exciting sequel in The Soccer Diaries series starring Rocky Race, a British footballer looking to make it big. Rocky Race is going for goal – but what about her grades?

Fourteen, hard as nails and magic on the pitch, Rocky Race is one of the best up and coming young footballers in the UK. But does she have what it takes to make it as a soccer pro in California?

Rocky Race is living the dream: she’s won a scholarship to a prestigious high school in Los Angeles, where she gets to play soccer and train for going pro. She’s got an amazing best friend, and a supportive mum and brother back home in the UK. But living away from home isn’t easy, and fitting in with American kids in high school is scary and new. Not to mention she has to keep her grades up if she wants to stay on the pitch! Will Rocky survive high school?

Order on Amazon here

Discover more here 

“everything that today’s children need as they grow up. It is jam-packed with positive role models, girls involvement in Women’s Football, respect, mental well-being, good work ethic, education and aspiration. Tom Palmer expertly weaves all of this together with friendship, family and a great little plot.”   Books for Topics 

AVAILABILITY : Virtual & In Person Author Visits

I am delighted to be still going into schools this term for in-person author visits and have availability from Autumn 2024.  More here.

“The impact of last year’s visit was massive and has really helped us develop reading with our current year 6 group. In reading surveys and discussions your books always get a mention and are still read by a lot of the year group.” Green Lane Primary School

New! Audio Books

After the War

Resist

Soccer Diaries 

Audio books for my other Barrington Stoke titles will be available from 9 May 2024.  Thank you for listening.

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Buy Books

Signed and dedicated copies of all my books are available personalised to order from my local independent children’s bookshop “The Thoughtful Spot” here. 

With an extra special Christmas or birthday card from me on request!

Overseas :
Australia: Boomerang
Canada: Amazon Canada
New Zealand: Wheelers
USA :  Indigo books

Visit my bookshop or support your local bookshop HIVE

Schools bumper 33 book pack offer here

33 books
£194 saving £63 – over 25% discount
FREE DELIVERY & SIGNED BOOKPLATES

Please email rosie@rosemaryhillbooks.co.uk

Schools class set offer here.

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