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	Greenwald, Tommy. GAME CHANGER New York : Amulet Books, 2018 IL 5-8 ISBN: 978-1419731433 4 booktalks
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Booktalk #1 An accident at the end of preseason football practice leaves 13-year-old Teddy Youngblood with a brain injury and in a coma...or was it an accident? Rumors swirl as Teddy, the team, and the town try to recover, and while Teddy is unable to share what he knows, there are plenty of others who just aren’t willing to. What really happened at the Rookie Rumble? Will anyone find the courage to tell the truth? (Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award 2019 - 2020) Booktalk #2 Teddy Youngblood is a 13-year-old football phenom. He seems to be grabbing the attention of his coaches and his upperclassmen teammates. However, during summer pre-season practice, an accident occurs that leaves Teddy with a brain injury and in a coma. Accusations begin to swirl as his classmates begin to wonder if his injury was really an accident or something else. At what cost will Teddy have to pay for his desire to become a Walthorne Wildcat? What truly happened at the Rookie Rumble and will anyone have the courage to tell the truth? (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021) Booktalk #3 Is football too dangerous? That is the question consuming 13-year-old Teddy Youngblood’s community after he suffers an extreme injury during football training camp and ends up in a coma. One by one, Teddy’s family, friends, teammates and coaches visit his bedside hoping Teddy is somewhere in there listening. Outside the hospital, a social media page asking for moral support for Teddy and his family blows up with controversy around what really happened on the field that day. Unfolding through a series of bedside conversations, social media posts, text message threads, newspaper articles, and transcripts, Game Changer is a thought-provoking mystery with no easy answers for football fans and skeptics alike. (Book Talk by Heather Nelson, McKnight Middle School ) (Washington Evergreen Book Award nominee 2021) Booktalk #4 An accident at the end of preseason football practice leaves 13-year-old Teddy Youngblood with a brain injury and in a coma...or was it an accident? Rumors swirl as Teddy, the team, and the town try to recover, and while Teddy is unable to share what he knows, there are plenty of others who just aren’t willing to. What really happened at the Rookie Rumble? Will anyone find the courage to tell the truth? (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2020-2021)
	SUBJECTS: Sports injuries -- Fiction. Coma -- Fiction. Hazing -- Fiction. Family problems -- Fiction.

Greenwald, Tommy.
GAME CHANGER
New York : Amulet Books, 2018
IL 5-8
ISBN: 978-1419731433

4 booktalks

Click on the book to read Amazon reviews

Booktalk #1

An accident at the end of preseason football practice leaves 13-year-old Teddy Youngblood with a brain injury and in a coma...or was it an accident? Rumors swirl as Teddy, the team, and the town try to recover, and while Teddy is unable to share what he knows, there are plenty of others who just aren’t willing to. What really happened at the Rookie Rumble? Will anyone find the courage to tell the truth?
(Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award 2019 - 2020)

Booktalk #2

Teddy Youngblood is a 13-year-old football phenom. He seems to be grabbing the attention of his coaches and his upperclassmen teammates. However, during summer pre-season practice, an accident occurs that leaves Teddy with a brain injury and in a coma. Accusations begin to swirl as his classmates begin to wonder if his injury was really an accident or something else. At what cost will Teddy have to pay for his desire to become a Walthorne Wildcat? What truly happened at the Rookie Rumble and will anyone have the courage to tell the truth? (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021)

Booktalk #3

Is football too dangerous? That is the question consuming 13-year-old Teddy Youngblood’s community after he suffers an extreme injury during football training camp and ends up in a coma. One by one, Teddy’s family, friends, teammates and coaches visit his bedside hoping Teddy is somewhere in there listening. Outside the hospital, a social media page asking for moral support for Teddy and his family blows up with controversy around what really happened on the field that day. Unfolding through a series of bedside conversations, social media posts, text message threads, newspaper articles, and transcripts, Game Changer is a thought-provoking mystery with no easy answers for football fans and skeptics alike. (Book Talk by Heather Nelson, McKnight Middle School ) (Washington Evergreen Book Award nominee 2021)

Booktalk #4

An accident at the end of preseason football practice leaves 13-year-old Teddy Youngblood with a brain injury and in a coma...or was it an accident? Rumors swirl as Teddy, the team, and the town try to recover, and while Teddy is unable to share what he knows, there are plenty of others who just aren’t willing to. What really happened at the Rookie Rumble? Will anyone find the courage to tell the truth? (Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books 2020-2021)

SUBJECTS:   Sports injuries -- Fiction.
                        Coma -- Fiction.
                        Hazing -- Fiction.
                        Family problems -- Fiction.