Game Changer
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4.1 • 17 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
What if school was sports, and sports were school? A talented teen athlete questions reality—and the role she plays in it—when a mysterious injury upends her world.
Athletics are everything for eighth-grader KT Sutton. She’s a softball star, and she’s on track to get a college scholarship and achieve international fame. Then one day during a championship game—in the middle of an important play—she suddenly blacks out.
When she wakes up, she’s in a different world. One where school is class after class of athletic drills, and after-school sports are replaced by popular academic competitions. One where KT is despised for her talent, and where her parents are fixated on her brother’s future mathletics career rather than KT’s softball hopes.
KT is desperate to get back to reality as she knew it, but bits and pieces of disturbing memories and dreams make her wonder if something truly awful happened there. What if she’s lost something a lot more important than a softball game?
From New York Times bestselling author of Sent and Sabotaged, an engaging and highly relevant exploration of society’s debate of smarts versus sports.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Eighth-grader KT Sutton lives to play softball. She has a roomful of trophies, parents who cater to her every athletic need, and a list of childhood goals tacked up in her room with sayings like, "The University of Arizona will beg me to pitch for them." Then, without warning or explanation, she's thrust into an alternate world where athletic skills are taught in school for grades, but after-school academic competitions are all anyone cares about. KT's geeky 12-year-old brother, Max, is now a mathletic rock star; her softball teammates don't want to be seen with her; and her parents find her an annoyance and a disappointment. Though KT's fierceness and determination to do what she loves are admirable, Haddix's message about the overimportance of sports in contemporary society is heavy-handed. Only when KT learns that Max also remembers the "real world," and the two of them team up, does the story find its warmth and heart. Haddix (The Always War) pulls out a touching ending after a journey designed mostly to teach a lesson. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Amazing!!
This is by far the best book I have ever read. It makes you realize how thankful you should be for your life.
Amazing
This is yet another truly good book by Margret Haddix. Whether you play softball or not it is a must read.
One of My Favorite Author, Margaret Peterson Haddix Strikes Again!
I cannot wait for this book, by one of the best authors in the world! I'm a almost 12 year old, who spends most of her time devouring book after book and thinking up book, dreaming to be as wonderful as Margaret Peterson Haddix! This is a must read and a to die for author!