Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four (The Sports Beat #1)

by John Feinstein (Author)

Reading Level: 6th − 7th Grade
Series: The Sports Beat

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.


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"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

"Score! That's exactly what author John Feinstein does with this mystery."—Dallas Morning News

"You'll feel as if you have a courtside seat at the SuperDome. Last Shot is Feinstein's first entry into fiction for young people, and it's an impressive one. The story is intriguing, the dialogue snappy and the finale exciting." —Bookpage

"A page-turning thriller and a basketball junkie's bonanza." —USA Today

John Feinstein
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.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780553494600
Lexile Measure
760
Guided Reading Level
X
Publisher
Yearling Books
Publication date
June 27, 2006
Series
The Sports Beat
BISAC categories
YAF042000 - Young Adult Fiction | Mysteries & Detective Stories
YAF059020 - Young Adult Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Basketball
YAF054020 - Young Adult Fiction | School & Education | College & University
Library of Congress categories
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