Home of the Braves (2002)

by David Klass

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Eighteen-year-old Joe, captain of the soccer team, is dismayed when a hotshot player shows up from Brazil and threatens to take over both the team and the girl whom Joe hopes to date.

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I abandoned this book and didn't finish. I just felt like the narrative voice wasn't authentic, more like an adult pretending to be a teenager. Disappointing. (

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sshadoan | Nov 10, 2011 |

All start on the high school soccer team. The main protagonists are Joe and Kris. Joe and Kris are in the same grade both have attended to school since little children. Joe is the captain of the Lawndale soccer team. When the season start, one Brazilian boy came to this high school to play soccer his name was Antonio Silva. First of all, this boy was rich his father bough him a new car. In the first game all the loca channels were in the game filming Silva. Kris the best friend of Joe look at the Brazilian boy and she start showing off with her elegant smile etc. Later in the book they were a couple. This annoyed Joe. Well the two best friends were mad each other for some months. Later the city got dangerous and Antonio decided to move to Spain. Joe was happy because Antonio was gone, this was an advantage to date Kris. The book ends with Joe and Kris getting in a relationship. Summary of Leonidas.

Mrs.Williams | Feb 23, 2010 |

If you need a book that you want to konw what happens until then end, read this. AHS/CD

edspicer | Jan 29, 2010 |

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Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee – High School – 2005)

Gateway Readers Award (Nominee – 2005)

Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (Nominee – 2007)

Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee – Young Adult – 2005)

South Carolina Book Awards (Nominee – Young Adult Book Award – 2005)

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Tayshas High School Reading List (2005)

Young Adult Favorites Award (2004)

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I don't know how the legend started that Lawndale High School is haunted. I never believed it.

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Eighteen-year-old Joe, captain of the soccer team, is dismayed when a hotshot player shows up from Brazil and threatens to take over both the team and the girl whom Joe hopes to date.

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Joe Brickman is looking forward to his year as captain of the Lawndale High soccer team - and to a blooming relationship with his neighbour Kristine. But when the social structure of the school begins to crumble, Joe finds himself on the wrong side of the new order. Violence has always been part of school life - especially at Lawndale. It goes back generations. But as the brutal, tribal rules that govern the school are exposed, Joe has to find the courage to break free...
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