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.Tags
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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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Leukemia / leukaemia -- children's/young adult fiction
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- Canonical title
- Something for Joey
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Teen
- DDC/MDS
- 306 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce
- LCC
- RC643 .P347 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Specialties of internal medicine Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs
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- 184
- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (4.07)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
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