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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When a cartoon appears in the school newspaper making fun of his tendency to talk a lot, Mac, the goalie for the Cougars' soccer team, is determined to find out who is responsible.
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Matt Christopher is the best selling name behind more than 100 sports-themed books for young readers.
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Christopher (see review, above) was treading water with this routine sports-story- cum-mystery. Someone is sending snide cartoons to the school newspaper featuring a motor-mouthed soccer goalie. Soccer goalie Mac Williams is determined to find out who is behind them. He complains to the principal, who shrugs it off as a First Amendment issue; Mac gathers circumstantial evidence, then falsely accuses a) Dougie, his best friend, b) Jimmy, the paper's sports reporter, and c) Billy, a teammate. The culprit is Billy's girlfriend, who, offended by Mac's remarks about her fellow's play, hoped to teach Mac a lesson. By the next page, everyone laughs it off. This is a decidedly minor effort: Even the sports action is vague and remote when it's not at Mac's end of the field. Readers may have trouble keeping the cast of similar-sounding characters straight, and the mystery is solved only after some heavily contrived stratagems. (Fiction. 10-12) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherTurtleback Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0613058992
- ISBN 13 9780613058995
- BindingSchool & Library Binding
- Number of pages144
- IllustratorKids The #1 Sports Writer For
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