Love, Football, and Other Contact Sports | 
 enlarge | Author: Alden R. Carter
Publisher: Holiday House
Category: Book
Buy New: $8.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 514469
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 261
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0823421651
EAN: 9780823421657
ASIN: 0823421651
Publication Date: August 2008
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Product Description
Renowned YA author Alden R. Carter offers up this laugh-out-loud, slice-of-high-school-life short-story collection, a Booklist Top 10 Sports Book of the Year for Youth. On "Jersey Day" the artsy academic girl wonders suspiciously which football player could have possibly put his invitational jersey on her desk. In "The Briefcase" the new kid reaps the consequences when his parents force him to carry an expensive briefcase with him to school. In "Elvis" a brainy girl with this unfortunate nickname receives social aid from an unlikely benefactor--the school's football star. In these laugh-out-loud pieces, Alden R. Carter tells the stories of students from one end of the social spectrum to the other. Jock to loner, academic snob to outcast, Carter explores and shatters the sterotypes behind the relationships, friendships, rumors, peer pressure, sports, bullies, and other assorted forms of mental anguish that come with high school. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Love, Football, And Other Contact Sports February 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book for my 7th grade classroom library after hearing about it at a conference. Before the day was over, I had many kids asking to sign it out and I haven't seen it back since I brought it in! A huge and hysterical hit!
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