- Basketball, Journalists, Journalism, Fiction
After winning a basketball reporting contest, eighth graders Stevie and Susan Carol are sent to cover the Final Four tournament, where they discover that a talented player is being blackmailed into throwing the final game.
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Classical in form, contemporary, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- John Feinstein
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Distributed by Random House, Knopf, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780606349369
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John Feinstein is an American sportswriter, author and sports commentator. - Wikipedia
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