Soccer Scoop: Who's making a fool of Mac? (Matt Christopher Sports Classics) - Softcover

Christopher, Matt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316188964 ISBN 13: 9780316188968

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1998

Synopsis

Mac Williams, goalie for the Cougars, is known as much for his upbeat game chatter as for his outstanding saves. But when an anonymous artist starts making fun of him with a weekly cartoon, Mac is anything but upbeat. To make matters worse, he suspects that somebody close to him is the cartoonist. Would one of his friends really betray him-or is there someone else who wants to make him look ridiculous?

About this title

About the Author:

Matt Christopher is the best selling name behind more than 100 sports-themed books for young readers.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Christopher (see review, above) was treading water with this routine sports-story- cum-mystery. Someone is sending snide cartoons to the school newspaper featuring a motor-mouthed soccer goalie. Soccer goalie Mac Williams is determined to find out who is behind them. He complains to the principal, who shrugs it off as a First Amendment issue; Mac gathers circumstantial evidence, then falsely accuses a) Dougie, his best friend, b) Jimmy, the paper's sports reporter, and c) Billy, a teammate. The culprit is Billy's girlfriend, who, offended by Mac's remarks about her fellow's play, hoped to teach Mac a lesson. By the next page, everyone laughs it off. This is a decidedly minor effort: Even the sports action is vague and remote when it's not at Mac's end of the field. Readers may have trouble keeping the cast of similar-sounding characters straight, and the mystery is solved only after some heavily contrived stratagems. (Fiction. 10-12) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0316188964
• ISBN 13: 9780316188968
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Illustrator: Kids The #1 Sports Writer For