The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393061239)

The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school such as, say, how to read or write. Nor has he ever touched a football.

What changes? He takes up football, and school, after a rich, Evangelical, Republican family plucks him from the mean streets. Their love is the first great force that alters the world's perception of the boy, whom they adopt. The second force is the evolution of professional football itself into a game where the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist turns out to be the priceless combination of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.

Author: Michael Lewis
ISBN-10: 039306123X
ISBN-13: 9780393061239
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2006
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.38w x 1.08d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.2
Point Value: 19
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 114311 / Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

Award: Alex Awards - Winner
Award: Iowa High School Book Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2006 pg. 90
Publishers Weekly 08/28/2006 pg. 45
Vanity Fair 10/01/2006 pg. 146
Library Journal 10/01/2006 pg. 74
Entertainment Weekly 10/06/2006 pg. 73
People Weekly 10/16/2006 pg. 57
Booklist 10/15/2006 pg. 4
New York Times 11/12/2006 pg. 12
Christianity Today 04/01/2007 pg. 86
Booklist 09/01/2007 pg. 48