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    Marcus Rashford: ‘My life was far from a fairytale’

    Dec 11, 2021 6 minutes

    Marcus Rashford, 24, plays football for England and Manchester United and is the author of this year’s bestselling children’s nonfiction book, You Are a Champion, written with the journalist Carl Anka to inspire young people to reach their full potential. One of five siblings raised by a single mother on minimum wage in Manchester, Rashford has become one of Britain’s leading campaigners against child poverty. In June he launched the Marcus Rashford Book Club in conjunction with Magic Breakfast and Macmillan Children’s Books to encourage a lifelong love of reading and give free books to underprivileged children. Next year, Rashford will release his first children’s fiction book, The Breakfast Club Adventures, co-authored by Alex Falase-Koya.

    I visited Button Lane a few weeks ago; it’s my old primary school and a recipient of my book club. It was brilliant to see the children’s faces light up when they talked about books, and each and every one of them had taken something slightly different away from their reading. They were engaged, and that

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