Touchdown Timmy

Touchdown Timmy is a middle-gradefiction novel for boys and girls between the ages of nine and thirteen. Eleven-year-old Timmy Tripp has just movedinto Morgan, Tennessee with his parents and older sister, Laura. One of Timmy's biggest obstacles as he entersthe sixth grade in a new middle school is the fact that he's extremely shortfor his age. But little does anybody inMorgan realize that Timmy also possesses an unbelievable talent when it comesto playing football. When thepint-sized boy decides to try out for the school's football team, his mother isworried sick and his schoolmates simply tease and laugh at him. But amazing things happen when young TimmyTripp picks up a football, and the entire town comes to realize that the boyhas a talent unmatched by many. Touchdown Timmy is sure to provide hours of non-stop action and adventure forany child, even those who are not football fans.

Andre J. Garant lives outside of Hartford, Connecticut. When he's not busy working as an accountant, Andre enjoys writing middle-grade fiction novels for boys and girls between theages of nine and thirteen. Touchdown Timmy is Garant's seventh published novel, and is one of twenty middle-grade fiction novels that he has written during the past several years. He is a 1991 graduate of St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont and is also a 1997 graduate of The Institute of Children's Literature in West Redding, Connecticut. Garant specializes in school visits where he enjoys speaking to upper elementary and middle-grade students about the books that he has written and what can be learned from them.