![]() decides she too wants to play football, for her home team of Red Bend, which is the main rival of Hawley. agrees to be his personal trainer to help him prepare for the upcoming football season. Jimmy sends his quarterback, Brian Nelson, over to help out at the farm, but Brian thinks the work is too hard, and quits after one day. ![]() She has one other brother, but he’s 13, and in any event is in a summer softball league.ĭ.J.’s dad used to be a football coach for the rival team at Hawley High, where his best friend Jimmy Ott still does the coaching. ![]() (for Darlene Joyce) Schwenk is 15 when the book begins, and she has taken over most of the chores at her family’s farm in Red Bend, Wisconsin, because her older brothers have left home, her mom is working two jobs, and her dad got injured. And it also had many blurbs saying, in essence, “I loved this book.” And unsurprisingly, I loved it as well.ĭ.J. ![]() I read this because I kept seeing it on lists like “Favorite Teen Read,” “Teen Recommended,” “ALA Best Books for Young Adults,” etc. ![]()
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