The Final Four
$25.80
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
18 February 2013
Summary
The championship is so close they can taste it. And for four key players, it’s about more than just winning. They’re fighting for pride, love, recognition, and stardom. But who will come out on top? Three games will settle the score …
In the game of a lifetime, four basketball players will test their skills, teamwork, determination, and resilience in this young adult sports novel.
“This is a great story about how one sport can transcend different experiences, background, and b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142423851 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0142423858 |
| Author: | Paul Volponi |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Speak |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 18 February 2013 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 140mm x 210mm |
| Audience Age: | 12 |
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Critics Review
“Volponi, a multiple award-winning author, keeps the tension high from the first to last page … The Final Four is definitely a winner.”—VOYA, starred review
“A triple-overtime game keeps readers on the edge of their seats, but nerve-wracking as the action on the floor may be, the baggage that the players bring to the game is equally fraught.”—BCCB, starred review
“With exciting game action … this gritty, realistic, and riveting novel deserves the wide audience it will no doubt attract.”—School Library Journal, starred review
“Volponi nails it when it counts in this dynamic story.”—Booklist, starred review
“Volponi’s latest combines in-the-moment action, basketball history and the points of view of four college ballplayers with very different lives … No story or character is simple.”—Kirkus Reviews
Paul Volponi
Paul Volponi is a writer, journalist, and teacher living in New York City.
From 1992 to 1998, he taught incarcerated teens on Rikers Island to read and write. This experience formed the basis of Black and White and Rikers High.
From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Volponi taught teens in a drug-treatment program. The experience inspired him to write Rooftop.
Mr. Volponi is also the author of Rucker Park Setup, Hurricane Song, and Response.
An ardent street ball player, Mr. Volponi draws upon his more than four decades of New York City court-sense to write The Final Four.
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