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Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl | 
 enlarge | Author: John Feinstein
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
List Price: $16.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 31619
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0375842470
EAN: 9780375842474
ASIN: 0375842470
Publication Date: August 14, 2007
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Product Description
THE SUPER BOWL. America's biggest sports spectacle. More than 95 million fans will be watching, but Steve Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson know that what they'll be watching is a lie. They know that the entire offensive line of the California Dreams have failed their doping tests and that the Dreams' owner is trying to cover up the test results. These two teens are sitting on the biggest sports scandal of the decade. What they don't know -yet - is how to prove it.
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 Great Sports Mystery February 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Cover-up" is one the most fantastic books that John Feinstein has written. The book is about Steve Thomas and Susan Carol who are reporters for USTV( United States Television). The kids have been to almost all of the major sport events. When Steve Thomas is fired from the television reporting squad, his co-host Susan Carol is not happy. When the TV station is replacing him with a dumb headed singer who, steve learns has no knowledge of even how to write a report he isn't happy either. But when he is hired by another TV station,the wars for who get Steve are on.
Reading this book helped me realized that even though you might think that the whole world has come to an end because of something bad that has happened to you ,you can still prevail.
I would recommend this book to audiences between the ages of 10 -100. This book has sports action, romance, and just plain sweetness. I think we should read this book in our English class. It was an extremely good book.
- Nate Seidner
Great reading for boys January 14, 2008
Our grandson read the book and said it was awesome. He loved the way it was written. In fact, it was hard for him to put down and do something else he was so in to it. After finishing this one, he couldn't wait to start on another mystery by the same author.
Mystery at the Super Bowl January 9, 2008
Hey all you sports fans or mystery readers! Cover-Up is the perfect story for you! Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are 14 years old and are the hosts on a sports update show, but Stevie got fired. Many people thought that it was cruel to fire a 14-year-old boy. Stevie is jealous of Susan Carol because she gets to go to the Super bowl. To satisfy his need for sports Stevie is hired for a week with the Washington Herald. Later, he is hired by CBS. Why did USTV ever fire him? Susan Carol is angry that they always get caught up in scandals. Soon Stevie and Susan Carol are stuck again at a major sporting event trying to solve a mystery. Will the dynamic duo save the Super bowl? Will the cheaters get caught or will they get away with it?
This is an exciting book, which you won't want to put down. This book is for teens that don't like to read. John Feinstein wrote three amazing books. This is his third amazing book.
 Suspenseful and hard to put down January 7, 2008
Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are not your typical fourteen-year-olds. After solving mysteries at the Final Four and the U.S. Open in two previous books in this series, the duo is at it again, this time at the Super Bowl.
After solving the U.S. Open mystery, Stevie and Susan Carol are offered a job on a USTV show called Kid Sports. The show is aimed at teenage viewers, and both Stevie and Susan Carol are excited when they learn that they will be headed to the Super Bowl to cover the game on their show. Just before they are ready to go, Stevie learns that he is going to be replaced on the show by rock star Jamie Whitsitt. Whitsitt knows nothing about sports, but USTV hopes that his popularity and good looks will help give their ratings a boost. Susan Carol is devastated and wants to quit as soon as she hears the news, but her contract won't allow her to. Susan Carol couldn't imagine the Super Bowl without Stevie, but as it turns out Stevie will be at the Super Bowl anyway after a friend of his gets him a job with the Washington Herald.
Susan Carol is at a party a few days before the game when she hears some incredible news. A drunken team doctor for the California Dreams, not realizing who he is talking to, tells Susan Carol that the whole starting offensive line has failed their drug tests and shouldn't even be playing. On top of that, he says, the owner of the Dreams, Don Meeker, knows about the results and is covering it up. Will Meeker get away with the cover-up or will Susan Carol and Stevie find a way to convict him? Read the book to find out.
Although it's pretty unrealistic that two teens would uncover three huge sports mysteries like Stevie and Susan Carol do in this series, this story still feels very real and is suspenseful right up until the very end. The author, John Feinstein, has experience as a sports journalist at the Washington Post and really knows from experience how crazy and exciting Super Bowl week can be. The inside details used makes this book feel absolutely real. It is the nonfiction-like details combined with mystery and likeable characters that make this book hard to put down until you are finished.
great book November 8, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
This was a really great book i think all of jhon feinstein's fiction books. Cover Up was the graetest yet though it has some character for the readers that like that type of book yet thier is a lot of action for readers that like that.All in all it was one of the best books I have ever read
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