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Item Nr: B 120791 Title: Muckers
Grade Lvl: JS Author: Wallace, Sandra Neil
Length: 274 Prod/Pub: Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright: 2013 Series:
Book Type: FC Biographee:
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Felix O'Sullivan, standing in the shadow of his dead brother, an angry, distant father, and racial tension, must lead the last-ever Muckers high school football team to the state championship before a mine closing shuts down his entire town. Story was inspired by the 1950 Jerome, Arizona Muckers football team. AR 5.1 RC 5.6 Lexile 860 IL 8-12.

  Subjects:
  519 - FOOTBALL
  301 - GRIEF/BEREAVEMENT
  590 - HIGH SCHOOLS
  1264 - HISPANICS
  591 - HISTORICAL FICTION
  1678 - LEXILE 800-899
  911 - RACE RELATIONS/RACISM
  700 - REALISTIC FICTION
  965 - SCHOOL STORIES
  1583 - SPORTS--FICTION