And that's where the real gut check sometimes is." - Horn Book, *A Junior Library Guild Selection* "Readers don't have to like football in order to love this book. Football action sequences are vivid and testosterone-fueled locker room fights (and talk) brutal, but ultimately this novel is less about football and more about people getting by in a town on the verge of collapse. Can the hero of a sports story be an overweight, ignored, nonathletic team mascot plucked from obscurity to land in the limelight? You bet! A winner." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review "The protagonists, the town, and the culture of high-school football are richly developed with keen insight and pithy prose. the storyline plays both offense and defense with perfection.
Can the hero of a sports story be an overweight, ignored, nonathletic team mascot plucked from obscurity to land in the limelight? You bet! A winner." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review, *A Junior Library Guild Selection* "Readers don't have to like football in order to love this book. And that's where the real gut check sometimes is." - Horn Book, "Readers don't have to like football in order to love this book. Even football neophytes will root for this winningly heartbreaking, humorous, and hopeful story." - Booklist, starred review "The protagonists, the town, and the culture of high-school football are richly developed with keen insight and pithy prose. It's filled with memorable characters, especially Nate, Wyatt's smart, acne-prone best friend. Can the hero of a sports story be an overweight, ignored, nonathletic team mascot plucked from obscurity to land in the limelight? You bet! A winner." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Like Friday Night Lights, this compelling debut breaks the fourth wall at times.
*A Junior Library Guild Selection* "Readers don't have to like football in order to love this book.
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