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Soccer Scoop: Who's making a fool of Mac? (Matt Christopher Sports Classics Book 57) by Christopher, Matt; Kids, The #1 Sports Writer for is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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? From School Library Journal Grade 3-5AWhen a cartoon appears in the school newspaper making fun of Mac's "motor mouth," the boy tries to find out who is responsible. This is one of Christopher's typical play-by-play sports stories with an upbeat ending and simple vocabulary and sentence structure. However, the plot is not particularly memorable. Mac has the bravado and confident personality often necessary for a successful goalie, but with all of his bragging, readers will wonder how he has any friends. Conversation between characters doesn't ring true and slang such as "You look spiffy" or the reference to a girl getting all "dolled up" for a dance sounds like phrases from the '40s or '50s rather than the '90s. Consider this for purchase only if more sports stories by Christopher a

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Author

Christopher, Matt; Kids, The #1 Sports Writer for

Publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published

1988

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316147576

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S