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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Children's Books
ISBN-100385754361
ISBN-139780385754361
eBay Product ID (ePID)208621857
Product Key Features
Book TitleStick
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicSports & Recreation / Football, Family / Parents, Social Themes / Dating & Relationships, School & Education, General, Social Themes / Friendship, Boys & Men, People & Places / United States / General
GenreJuvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
AuthorMichael Harmon
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12.6 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceYoung Adult Audience
LCCN2014-041400
Reviews""This delivers the feel-good satisfaction of an afterschool special while forgoing the saccharine aftertaste for some solid satisfaction." -- Bulletin , starred review
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromNinth Grade
Dewey Decimal[Fic]
Synopsis"Stick" is the best wide receiver in the history of his high school--the football seems magnetically drawn to his hands, hence his nickname. Preston is an outcast, and his pipsqueak stature and nerdy social status couldn't be further from a star athlete's. Stick puts on his football costume every week to make others--his teammates, his dad, everyone but himself--happy, but he's fallen out of love with the sport and feels that he's lost control of his future. Preston puts on his homemade superhero costume every night to help others, too: to avenge his father's murder, he's determined to right the wrongs he sees in his neighborhood and regain control of the flawed world he sees around him. A twist of fate brings this unlikely pair together in a friendship that is as odd as it is true. Each can see the other better than he can see himself, and in these unexpected reflections lies a chance for mutual redemption.