This edition of the Wonder Team is a fantastic adventure where our heroes deal delicately with the racial issues surrounding equality in 1950's America as well as young 'Leah' teaching the readers a lesson about patience and selflessness surrounding sports injuries.

This will absolutely be added to my classroom shelves due to its brilliant plot, themes of friendship and resilience!

This is the fourth in a series of children's books by Leah Williamson with her cousin Jordan Glover. Like all the others except the first, there's not a lot of football in it, which might prove disappointing to young readers drawn in by the cover and Leah Williamson's name. (They do have a go at American football at one point, though.) That aside, it's a fun read, with time-travelling kids Leah, George and Mimi this time finding themselves in 1950s USA, with the space race in full swing.

They soon meet Cindy, a young Black girl whose mother Nancy - a gifted mathematician - is one of the "human computers" at NACA, the predecessor of NASA. (This was reminiscent of the film Hidden Figures, on a similar theme.) Not everyone, though, is happy to see a lowly Black woman in such a pivotal role... as always, the Wonder Team have a mission to complete before they can return home....