Something for Joey by Peck, Richard

Something for Joey (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780553271997)

Vendor: Richard Peck
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Format: Paperback
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Something for Joey by Peck, Richard

Something for Joey

$7.99
Something for Joey by Peck, Richard

Something for Joey

$7.99
Format: Paperback
Description
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Together, they won college football's highest award.


This is a true, memorable, compassionate story of courage and love between two brothers. In 1973, while John Cappelletti was winning the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding college football player in America, his younger brother Joey was suffering from leukemia. But John, now a running back for the Los Angeles Rams, had a very special medicine for Joey. It was called touchdowns. And John scored them in bunches because they were "Something for Joey." The story of the Cappelletti family is a story of courage you will never forget.

Author: Richard Peck
ISBN-10: 0553271997
ISBN-13: 9780553271997
Publisher: Laurel Leaf Library
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1983
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 6.93h x 4.21w x 0.55d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 32518 / Something for Joey
By Richard Peck
By Richard Peck
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Born in Decatur, IIlinois, Richard Peck has written over 41 books for young readers. He is the winner of the 1990 Margaret A. Edwards Award, a prestigious award sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association in cooperation with the School Library Journal; the 1990 National Council of Teachers of English/ALAN Award for outstanding contributions to young adult literature; and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award. In 2001 Mr. Peck was awarded the Newbery Medal for A Year Down Yonder.

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