Football Hero (Reviewed by Zack)

Football Hero

by: Tim Green

Imagine that your parents died and you have to live with your mean uncle and aunt, while your brother is about to get drafted to the NFL. What would you do?

This book is realistic fiction where an event happens that hasn’t happened before, but could happen. Football Hero is about a kid named Ty. His parents died so he has to live with his very mean Uncle Gus and Aunt Virginia who barely let him do anything except work and read. Ty’s brother Thane gets drafted to the NFL and now Ty’s playing football and is one of the best players on his team. Things are going along pretty good for Ty until his Uncle takes advantage of Thane making money. Will Ty save Thane from losing his job? Read the book to find out.

There are two strength’s and two weaknesses to this book. The first strength is that it has football in it. For example, Ty is on a football team and might be one of the best players on it because he caught just about every pass that was thrown to him. Another strength is that it’s suspenseful. Like when Ty was about to get the winning touchdown, I almost fell out of my bed. One weakness is that it’s a little slow at the beginning because it’s not really that exciting. For example, it kept repeating the same old things throughout the whole story. Also, nothing really happened at the beginning. For example, Ty just goes to school and does normal stuff.

I would recommend this book to 3rd through 7th graders because it has both easy and hard words like, happy and sad and versatile and imperative. I give this book two thumbs up!