![]() ![]() The story is intriguing, the dialogue snappy and the finale exciting. Last Shot is Feinstein’s first entry into fiction for young people, and it’s an impressive one. “You’ll feel as if you have a courtside seat at the SuperDome. “Score! That’s exactly what author John Feinstein does with this mystery.” -Dallas Morning News He writes as if he’s having a fine time at the keyboard, and the result will entertain not only young readers, but the oldsters looking over their shoulders as well.” -Boston Globe It tells the story of two young reporters, Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson, who stumble upon a plot to blackmail fictional Minnesota State basketball player Chip Graber into throwing the Final Four in New Orleans. Remarkably, Feinstein pokes holes in the illusions without diminishing the excitement of the games themselves as seen through the eyes of two eighth-grade reporters. Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery is a young adult novel by John Feinstein. The blackmailing plot that unfolds over the course of Final Four weekend threatens a student-athlete who isn’t a student, implicates an ethics professor with no ethics, and otherwise introduces to young readers the sleaze beneath the glitter of college basketball’s biggest show. Heres The Sports Beats scoop on the Final Four. Exceptionally knowledgeable about the college basketball world, Feinstein has a fine time lampooning broadcaster Dick Vitale and the bureaucrats who populate the NCAA itself. A fresh cover look and series title for bestselling author John Feinsteins middle grade sports mysteries. ![]() “ Last Shot is a brisk novel set in the madness of the NCAA’s Final Four. ![]()
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This thriller - later auctioned into a multi-million-dollar Hollywood film treatment - focuses on Robert Langdon, a Harvard University professor of symbology, who is in Paris on a speaking engagement when he is woken in the middle of the night by the French police and implicated in the murder of the Louvre Museum curator. The Da Vinci Code, 2003ĭescribed by The Guardian as “ludicrous but gripping”, Brown’s Magnum Opus The Da Vinci Code needs little introduction. ![]() ![]() Here are his seven major novels ranked from best to worst: 1. American thriller novelist Dan Brown turns 54 today.Īlthough not always finding favour with critics, his books have sold hundreds of millions of copies and Hollywood adaptations have been made of his works. ![]() ![]() Akos is from the peace-loving nation of Thuvhe, and his loyalty to his family is limitless. ![]() But Cyra is much more than just a blade in her brother's hand: she is resilient, quick on her feet, and smarter than he knows. 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She continued taking writing classes after the birth of her second daughter, but when she and her husband divorced, she went back to school and entered the SIMAT (School Immersion Masters in the Art of Teaching) program at Johns Hopkins University. worked part time in her husband’s business and took writing classes at the local community college. When her son was four, the family moved to the state of Maryland. She married her husband while in college, and had two children a few years after graduating from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. Baker was born in Buffalo, New York and spent most of the next eighteen years in the Town of Tonawanda with her older brother and her parents. The Frog Princess inspired the Disney's Princess and the Frog!Į. Baker made her international debut in 2002 with The Frog Princess, which was a Texas Lone Star Reading List Book, A Book Sense Children's Pick, a Florida's Sunshine State Readers List pick & a 2006 Sasquatch Book Award nominee. ![]() |