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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.
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5.0
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Elizabeth Young
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February 15, 2016
This is my Favorite book! It is so interesting, and very helpful. I'm going through something just like Amanda, and I hope I have a happy ending just like her. But, while I was reading this book, I became very frustrated with Lena, because she blamed Amanda for her dumb decision to go to a party and get drunk. Which Amanda chose not to do. I think Lena is kinda stuck-up. But I still love the story, If your deciding to buy this or not.. DO IT! It'll be the best book you ever read, and I'm 11. It's was at my school's library. This Book does have a lot of curse words, but I really don't mind, you shouldn't either.
About the author
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, Rosie and Best Life magazines, 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.
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