![]() ![]() ![]() Dark, fast-paced, and riotously funny entertainment. One mid-sized city with a history of countless mysteries. ![]() A wry glossary “defines” British terms (“Nuffink: The way you say ‘nothing’ if you were dragged up rather than brought up”), but can’t begin to illuminate the arcane mysteries of the British football-industrial complex readers are on their own there. 1: The Case of the Team Spirit 19.99 by John Allison Shauna. Meanwhile, plans for a new stadium are being blocked by tough old Mrs. A series of strange events leads some people to believe that the local Tackleford City Football Club is cursed. About her mother’s boyfriend’s Velvet Underground albums, Shauna yawns, “It’s nice that you gave some money to people just playing music for the first time.” Allison’s adults are sympathetically drawn, too-even the archvillain has a human side. Gr 710 Originally published as a serialized webcomic, The Case of the Team Spirit introduces a group of British tweens involved in a mystery. There’s plenty of cynical commentary about British consumer culture, and the students’ sardonic banter provides a constant obbligato. ![]() football (soccer) team trying to bully an elderly homeowner to sell her house as the title hints, supernatural elements surface, too. The framing story concerns a Russian owner of a U.K. Set in a grammar school in a British working-class community, this first book in his Bad Machinery series-originally published as a webcomic-has three earnest boys vying against three sharp-tongued girls to solve mysteries. Allison is a triple threat: he plots deftly, draws confidently, and writes dead-on adolescent dialogue. ![]()
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