Fantasy League

Fantasy League

By Mike Lupica

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Interest LevelReading LevelReading A-ZATOSWord Count
Grades 4 - 8Grades 10 - 8n/a5.565402
From the #1 bestselling author of HeatTravel Team and Million-Dollar Throw comes a story of every football kid’s dream come true.
 
12-year-old Charlie is a fantasy football guru. He may be just a bench warmer for his school's football team, but when it comes to knowing and loving the game, he's first-string. He even becomes a celebrity when his podcast gets noticed by a sports radio host, who plays Charlie's fantasy picks for all of Los Angeles to hear. Soon Charlie befriends the elderly owner of the L.A. Bulldogs -- a fictional NFL team -- and convinces him to take a chance on an aging quarterback. After that, watch out . . . it's press conferences and national fame as Charlie becomes a media curiosity and source of conflict for the Bulldogs general manager, whose job Charlie seems to have taken. It's all a bit much for a kid just trying to stay on top of his grades and maintain his friendship with his verbal sparring partner, Anna.

Like the best Disney film in book form, like Moneyball for kids, Fantasy League is every football kid's dream scenario.
 

Praise for FANTASY LEAGUE:

* "This Moneyball story with kids is on the money."–Booklist, starred review 

"The feel good book of the year."–VOYA

“Readers will be alternately cheering and reaching for a tissue during the final playoff-deciding game for the Bulldogs. This will be devoured by young football fans.”–School Library Journal
Publisher: Puffin Books
ISBN-13: 9780147514943
ISBN-10: 0147514940
Published on 7/14/2015
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 320

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Charlie was just your average football fan except for the fact that he studied every single play and was a genius at it. He helps lead his football team the Pop Warner Cardinals and a professional team ( The L.A. Bulldogs ) and how he has his best year of his life turn him from an average kid to a 7th-grade sensation. Read to find out the rest

I enjoyed this book and how Charlie has to go through thick and thin and helps his team (Pop Warner Cardinals) to the L.A. Bulldogs and it turns out to be the best year ever for Charlie and everyone on both the L.A. Bulldogs and Pop Warner Cardinals. Read to find out more about how Charlie becomes a 7th grade sensation