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Matt Monroe is a shoo-in for starting quarterback for the Parkside Middle School football team this year.
Or is he?
Devro, a new seventh grader, looks pretty impressive. He's consistent and can run the plays almost as well as Matt. And he's got speed.
As the fall football season unfolds, the team has more than its share of surprises and unexpected challenges, as well as plenty of victories and upsets on and off the field—all of which Matt records and analyzes in a journal he keeps for his English class. By the last kickoff of the season, Matt has learned that a team is only as good as the sum of its parts and that playing together is the only way to win.
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Release date
August 20, 2013 -
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Kindle Book
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781480443037
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EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781480443037
- File size: 3127 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 4.5
- Lexile® Measure: 690
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 3
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Reviews
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September 1, 2011
Grades 4-7 In another absorbing sports tale from the prolific and dependable Bowen, an eighth-grade jock not only records the ups and downs of an exciting football season but he catches the writing bug. Tracking the progress of the middle-school team he quarterbacks from tryouts to the championship game in an assigned journal, Matt shares both increasingly detailed and well-described accounts of each victory or defeat and his own changing opinion of a gifted but annoyingly self-confident new team member. With practice and frequent critical feedback from his English teacher, his entries go from Paragraph 1. We had practice again today. We did a bunch of exercises and stuff to gems like The dark, the cold, the hard groundit all made me realize that winter was coming. In the end, sharing an MVP trophy with his erstwhile rival takes the sting out of losing the last game, and Matt is left mulling his next move: I like being part of a team. And I can write about winter track. The author expertly balances the subplots and football action.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)
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