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POP

Written by: Gordon Korman
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
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When Marcus moves to a new town, he doesn't have any friends. While practicing football for impending tryouts, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with former NFL star Charlie Popovich, nicknamed "The King of Pop". Charlie is a charismatic prankster, and the best football player Marcus has ever seen. But when his behavior starts getting more and more erratic, Marcus learns the secret that Charlie's family is desperate to hide: Charlie is suffering from early onset Alzheimer's from the concussions he sustained while playing professional football.

As Marcus starts at his new school, he meets the starting quarterback: Troy Popovich. Right from the beginning, Marcus and Troy disagree - about football, about Troy's ex-girlfriend Alyssa, but most of all, about what's good for Charlie's future. Marcus is betting that he knows what's best for The King of Pop. And he will risk everything to help his friend.

©2009 Gordon Korman (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Difficult Situations Fiction Literature & Fiction Sports Fiction Sports
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Great for anybody that loves football and a good read. Great story 10/10 would recommend.

This was an amazing book would recommend

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We love all Gordon Korman books thus far, but this one was a miss. Only a few chapters in, there were sexual innuendos from a cheerleader and that doesn’t fly for my family. It’s one thing for characters to have crushes and that seems to be common throughout his books, but don’t need my 7-12 year old kids offering sexual favours to football players. Tacky. I wish I could get my credit back.

Tasteless, unnecessarily inappropriate and not as good as his other books.

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