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368 pages.
Summary: Meet Tariq Nader, a football player from Punchbowl High, who is forced by a no-nonsense new principal to join a rugby league competition in an attempt to rehabilitate the public image of Tariq's 'violent' and 'hostile' school. When his team is formed, Tariq learns there's a major catch: half of his team is made up of boys from Cronulla -- in other words, enemy territory -- and he must compete with their strongest player. At school Tariq thinks he has life all figured out -- until he falls for a new girl called Jamila, who challenges everything he thought he knew. Now, with complications on all fronts, he has to dig deep and find what it really takes to be a leader. His relationships with his extended Lebanese family and with his friends are tested like never before and he has to learn, in situations that are both comic and challenging, that his choices have consequences. (Publisher)