Good read for preteens!!!

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	• Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery (Final Four Mysteries) John Feinstein Yearling, 2006 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 57 reviews view larger image
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John Feinstein's Last Shot is the next best thing to court side seats at a basketball game. This book takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson (very tall for 13 years old) have won a writing contest so they get to go to New Orleans for a few days and be reporters on the Final Four. The Final Four is the biggest college basketball tournament.

At first Stevie thought he was better than everyone at writing but Susan Carol on the other hand was unselfish. Both kids got assigned to a guide to show them around the superdome. Stevie got Dick "Hoops" Weiss and Susan Carol had Bill Brill. Hoops and Bill are both professional reporters.

When Stevie and Susan Carol were snooping around the superdome they overheard a teacher blackmailing Chip Graber (a famous basketball player). He said that if Chip doesn't throw the final game his dad will lose his job, the basketball team will get stripped of all its wins and Chip will get kicked off the team. The next day they sneak up to Chips room to talk about the blackmail. Chip said that someone changed his school transcript so he's ineligible to play.

I think the theme of this book is trust and friendship. I think its trust because when they went to do something dangerous they would e-mail someone and have trust in them to come help if needed. It's also friendship because When Stevie and Susan Carol helped Chip they were being good friends. I really liked this book because it just kept going and going.

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Good read for preteens!!!

I brought this book for my daughter. She loved previous novels from this author, so I pick up this one. She plays basketball herself, which makes the stories even more interesting to her. She loves the book and would like to read all the novels in this series. Please keep up the good work.

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What if you were going through your mail and found a letter saying you had won a writing contest that you had always dreamed of winning? The winner would be given a chance to cover the Final Four as a journalist. You could go to press conferences and go where only journalists can go. All your articles would be published in the newspaper and you could do this all as a kid! That's the trip every child college basketball fan dreams of and, that's precisely what happened to Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson in John Feinstein's debut novel Last Shot.

When passive Stevie and outgoing Susan Carol win the United States Basketball Writers Association's (USBWA) young writers contest, the two 8th graders are given a chance to cover the Final Four in New Orleans as young journalists. But while they are there, they accidentally overhear Minnesota's Chip Graber, the best college player in America, being blackmailed with his grades to fix the Final Four by missing all his shots in the championship game. Now these two kids, who are an unlikely pair, and are in unfriendly terms with each other, must learn to get along and find a way to save Chip and the Final Four with little less than 72 hours to do it.

Last Shot is an action packed, upbeat, page-turning thriller about friendship and basketball that any basketball fan will love. It was the winner of the 2006 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Book. This is also John Feinstein's first book for young adults but fans of his adult books will find his trademark element, sports, alive and well in this book.

John Feinstein expertly creates a vivid setting with well developed and believable characters that sometimes do unbelievable things. For example, Stevie and Susan Carol sneak through extremely tight security in a hotel to meet Chip Graber. But in the end, everything comes together in a very surprising but suspenseful way, and it makes for a great read and an even more exciting finish.

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