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Last Shot

Mystery at the Final Four (The Sports Beat, 1)

John Feinstein

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Random House USA Inc
27 June 2006
Series: The Sports Beat
"A fresh cover look and series title for bestselling author John Feinstein's middle grade sports mysteries. Here's The Sports Beat's scoop on the Final Four basketball tournament.

New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein exposes the real ""March Madness""-behind the scenes at the Final Four basketball tournament.

When Stevie wins a writing contest for aspiring sports journalists, his prize is a press pass to the Final Four in New Orleans. While exploring the Superdome, he overhears a plot to throw the championship game. With the help of fellow contest winner Susan Carol, Stevie has just 48 hours to figure out who is blackmailing one of the star players . . . and why.

John Feinstein has been praised as ""the best writer of sports books in America today"" (The Boston Globe), and he proves it again in this fast-paced novel.

""A page-turning thriller and a basketball junkie's bonanza."" -USA Today"
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Imprint:   Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Height: 192mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   181g
ISBN:   9780553494600
ISBN 10:   0553494600
Series:   The Sports Beat
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

JOHN FEINSTEIN is the author of many bestselling books, including A Season on the Brink and A Good Walk Spoiled. His books for young readers offer a winning combination of sports, action, and intrigue, with Last Shot receiving the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best young adult mystery of the year. He lives in Potomac, Maryland, and Shelter Island, New York, with his family.

Reviews for Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four (The Sports Beat, 1)

Last Shot is a brisk novel set in the madness of the NCAA's 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. 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. 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. 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<br> <br> Score! That's exactly what author John Feinstein does with this mystery. --Dallas Morning News<br> <br> You'll


  • Nominated for Arizona Young Readers Award.
  • Nominated for Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Award 2007
  • Winner of Kentucky Bluegrass Master List 2006
  • Winner of Texas Lone Star Reading List 2006

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