Youth Sports

Bert Trautmann is famed as the goalkeeper who broke his neck in an FA Cup final and played on. But his early life is no less extraordinary: he grew up in Nazi Germany and fought for the Germans in World War Two. In 1945 he was captured and sent to a British POW camp where, for the first time, he saw a better way of life. He embraced England as his new home and before long became an England football hero. This is his extraordinary story.

This audiobook features an eight-year-old boy telling, in his newly learned Spanish, about his love of salmon fishing. This is A FLY Young Author Book. Advanced students have the opportunity to write a story in their new target language and become a published FLY Young Author.

This 10-year-old author, in her newly learned Spanish, tells of her goal to play professional soccer. This is a FLY Young Author book. All proceeds from the sale of this and other FLY Young Author books go directly to the author's college fund and scholarships for FLY students to learn another language. Foreign Language for Youth, a nonprofit 501(c)3 school established in 1995, educates elementary and middle school students in Spanish, French, Mandarin, Japanese, and Arabic.