Second Impact: Making the Hardest Call of All

David Klass · Perri Klass

Aug 2013 · Sold by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

About this ebook

Kendall is football town, and Jerry Downing is the high school's star quarterback, working to redeem himself after he nearly killed a girl in a drunk driving accident last year. Carla Jenson, lead reporter for the school newspaper's sports section, has recruited Jerry to co-author a blog chronicling the season from each of their perspectives. When Jerry's best friend on the team takes a hit too hard and gets hurt, Carla wonders publicly if injury in the game comes at too high a cost in a player's life—but not everyone in Kendall wants to hear it...

David Klass and Perri Klass's Second Impact is an action-packed story will resonate with readers who have been following recent news stories are football injuries.

Ratings and reviews

If you are in anyway up to date with technology, this book is perfect. These two Main characters, Carla and Jerry put blog posts on their high school's blog page. The whole course of the book is Jerry and Carla communicating with each other and most importantly, the reader. The authors Klass, do a wonderful job in portraying the extent of sports injuries, morphed into a young high schooler age group. This is a perfect book that explains the importance of rest with athletes that EVERY athlete should read

About the author

David Klass is a screenwriter and the author of many young adult novels, including most recently Stuck on Earth, which Publishers Weekly called "a thoughtful, often wrenching book [that] offers plenty to think about." He lives in New York City.


Perri Klass is a pediatrician and contributor to the New York Times as well as an author of several books for adults. She is also professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University. Second Impact is her first book for teens. She lives in New York City.