Description
by Jenkins, Cathy | Children’s / Teenage fiction & true stories
Published 01/10/2024 by Graffeg Limited (Cadno) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 122 pages
✨Shortlisted for the 2025 Little Rebels Award! ✨
ZAC AND JAC by Cathy Jenkins, with illustrations by Monique Steele, published by Graffeg
This is an engaging, pacy story about two football-loving friends, which also managed to deftly examine racism and the different ways in which it can impact children’s lives. Jac’s struggle to understand his father’s behaviour offers a sensitive look at parental relationships, generational differences, and how to deal with the prejudices of people we love. This is a refreshingly open and direct exploration of this subject, and a story which celebrates the potential for social change. ⚽️
Publisher description:
“Nine-year-old Jac sees his father as a hero, but when Jac joins a local football team with his best friend Zac, things start to get a bit weird at home. It’s not until a group of professional footballers come into school to talk about racism that Jac realises what his father’s problem could be. After a traumatic turn of events, Jac learns of the difficulties faced by Zac’s grandparents and the Windrush Generation and becomes determined to help make a change in society, starting with his own family.”
