Gordon Korman has been a long time favourite of mine, and when referring students to a great read I often find myself back at his shelf, asking have you read this yet? He's written a terrific blend of humor, sports, action/adventure, suspense and sometimes all of those at once. So I'm not surprized that his latest new release POP will have me heading to the shelf to give it rave review.
Pop by Gordon Korman
Say you move to a new town during the summer, you dream of making the football team at the new school you'll be going to - there's kind of one complication, last year the team was undefeated and they're not too excited about having some no-name join them. This is the case for Marcus Jordan. So Marcus begins solo training sessions in the park - what starts out as throwing the ball through an empty picture frame hung from a tree has him eventually being slammed to the ground by a middle-aged guy he's never met before. This middle-aged guy winds up being a former NFL'er Charlie Popovich. Marcus and Charlie begin practicing together, it seems that there stuff to be learned from the old guy - but why is Charlie always calling him Mac, why is he never on time for their practices and what will Marcus do when he learns that Charlie is the father of Troy Popovich the current QB for the high school team?
Very well written, great characters, loved the football action and the ending caught me off guard much like Marcus and that first tackle.
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