Something for Joey

by Richard E. Peck

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Biography of football player John Cappelletti, winner of the 1973 Heisman Trophy, and his younger brother Joey, who fought a losing battle with leukemia.

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I remember reading this in grade school more than once and crying each time. It's wonderfully written.
Read this in high school 42 years ago. I don't remember much about it, but I do remember loving it, and it made a big impact on how I looked at life at the time.
Amazing book. It's a great story and there is a great lesson behind it. It was a "Summer reading" book that I was required to read for school. There were a few other choices, but I'm very glad that I chose this one. At first I didn't seem interested because I thought it was mainly about football. it's not. I would definitely recommend that you read it!

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Richard E. Peck is former president of the University of New Mexico.

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Something for Joey

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Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Teen
DDC/MDS
306Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySocial Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce
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RC643 .P347MedicineInternal medicineInternal medicineSpecialties of internal medicineDiseases of the blood and blood-forming organs
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Languages
English
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Paper
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