Shutout
Published on 7. April 2015
182 pages
978-1-5040-0683-5 (ISBN)
Description
Lena and Amanda are best friends and star soccer players-but what happens when the thing they love most threatens to tear them apart?
Soccer has always been a part of Lena and Amanda's friendship. For six years, they have been an unstoppable team on and off the field: best friends and great teammates. Amanda is sure they'll both make the varsity team in ninth grade and go on to win the state championship. But when Lena makes the cut and Amanda doesn't, everything seems uncertain, and Amanda worries that her best friend is leaving her behind.
With Shutout, Brendan Halpin has created a powerful story of friendship, sportsmanship, and growing up.
Soccer has always been a part of Lena and Amanda's friendship. For six years, they have been an unstoppable team on and off the field: best friends and great teammates. Amanda is sure they'll both make the varsity team in ninth grade and go on to win the state championship. But when Lena makes the cut and Amanda doesn't, everything seems uncertain, and Amanda worries that her best friend is leaving her behind.
With Shutout, Brendan Halpin has created a powerful story of friendship, sportsmanship, and growing up.
More details
Person
Brendan Halpin is a teacher and the author of books for adults and young adults including the Alex Award-winning
Donorboy,
Forever Changes, and the Junior Library Guild Selection
Shutout. He is also the coauthor of
Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom, with Emily Franklin, and
Notes from the Blender, with Trish Cook, both of which the American Library Association named to its Rainbow List. Halpin's writing has appeared in the
Boston Globe, the
Los Angeles Times,
Rosieand
Best Lifemagazines, and the
New York Times' "Modern Love" column. Halpin is a vegetarian, a fan of vintage horror movies, and an avid tabletop gamer. He lives with his wife, Suzanne, their three children, and their dog in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Warm-up
- Preseason
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- Soccer Season
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- Postseason
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
