Half a Team Half a Team Half a Team is a 1980 children's novel by prolific British author Michael Hardcastle. The book is the sixth in Hardcastle's series about a Junior football League and features recurring characters Nick Abel- Smith (United! 1973, Away from Home (1974) and Lester Rowan (Away from Home). The book follows the story of Abel-Smith and fellow young footballer Steve Sewell as they attempt to overcome the humiliation of being dropped from their respective teams ahead of a five-a-side tournament. Joining forces they create a new team, The Swifts, and, after overcoming a series of obstacles, including getting Steve
A House Divided (novel) A House Divided (novel) A House Divided (1935) is the sequel to the 1932 novel "Sons", and the third book in "The House of Earth" trilogy, all written by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck. It centers on the third generation of Wang Lung's family, focusing particularly on his grandson Wang Yuan. Shortly after the confrontation between Wang the Tiger and his son Wang Yuan at the end of "Sons", Yuan travels to the old earthen house where his grandfather Wang Lung had lived. He intends merely to hide here for a while and wait out the revolution in which