Losers Take All
by David Klass
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"At a sports-crazy NJ high school where all kids must play on a team, a group of rebels start a soccer team designed to undermine the jock-culture of the school"--Tags
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What would happen if all seniors were required to play on a sports team? What if someone created a team just for losers? One that wouldn't try to win, but go out of their way to be funny? How would the other teams react? Does the athletic "win at all costs" culture contribute to bullying? What if your team makes the national news? Is your message, if you really ever had one, lost?
I wasn't expecting the turn this book took, but I appreciated the the irony, and the nerve touched by Jack's team of soccer losers. As a non-athletic kid myself, I could identify with portions of Losers Take All. And its message that sometimes adults can go to far.
I wasn't expecting the turn this book took, but I appreciated the the irony, and the nerve touched by Jack's team of soccer losers. As a non-athletic kid myself, I could identify with portions of Losers Take All. And its message that sometimes adults can go to far.
This gets 4.5 stars
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- The scoreboard had been designed in Japan, and our town bought it a year ago to record Fremont's glorious football victories and track triumphs. From the bleachers where I stood with seven hundred screaming students and four... (show all) thousand equally crazed townspeople, the giant live-feed LED display and the half dozen digital timers helped us follow all the action on the track far below.
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