Read Tough To Tackle (1987)

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Author

Matt Christopher

Genre

Romance

Rating

3.83 of 5 Votes: 3

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ISBN

0316140589 (ISBN13: 9780316140584)

Language

English

Publisher

little, brown books for young readers

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Tough To Tackle (1987) - Plot & Excerpts

Tough to Tackle was a good book in my opinion. Boots Raymond has always had a dream about playing quarterback for the Apollos. The only problem is Boots is a bigger kid than the coach wants to put at QB. When he goes and tries out for the team. The coach he really wants to play QB, the coach told him that he is too big. He also crushed his dreams of ever getting to play QB. Boots then thought about not even playing football at all. Boots then went to practice the next day and was put at tackle. After that practice, he had enough. He went to his older brother and told him he was going to quit. His older brother told him not to and just to stick it out the rest of the season. Boots listened and was a big help to the team. He helped lead the team to be the division winners. Without Boots on the offensive line the team would have not won so many games.Boots is a bigger athletic kid. Just like all kids he had a dream, but it was crushed by a coach. He did not want to be a quitter, but after not being able to play QB he thought hard about quitting. Boots was a very coachable kid which led his team to win.I would recommend this book to all kids that play a sport from middle to high school. It shows how even if your dream does not come true you can still be successful.

The average age range for Tough to Tackle is secondary.This book is about a young boy named Boots who wants to play football as a quarterback but he is too heavy and is better for a lineman. He talked to his brother Tom who was away, about quitting football but Tom told him not to so he stayed with it. The book talks through what happens during the game and the different plays and if the team wins or not. Also the whole family awaits the letter from Tom towards the end and can't wait for an answer. There are no artistic elements in this book because there are no pictures and this is a chapter book. I would recommend this book to children because it is a good book and has a message to not quit a team if you don't get the exact position you want because you can be good at another position on the team.

What do You think about Tough To Tackle (1987)?

This is about american football and about Boots Raymond, he want to play quarterback than very thing. but of his side coach tell him play tackle, he can't not play a quarterback when he know that it make him feel very sad, at first he almost quit from the team but he has older brother that support him and tell him not to quit and make him continue to play. First time he play very bad and his team have to lose because he play not good that he can and he has saw american football super star that play same position as him, that man tell him how his position important and it make him have spirit to play, in the end his team won many game and become professional player.This book tell me that if you do something that you love, try to do your best and don't give up too easy and it will be hard at the first but after that you will be good at it.
—Saisamoud