Publisher: HarperCollins

Copyright Date: 2017

Edition Date: 2017 Release Date: 09/05/17

Pages: 341 pages

ISBN: Publisher: 0-06-229383-4 Perma-Bound: 0-605-99323-8

ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-06-229383-1 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-99323-5

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2016936327

Dimensions: 20 cm.

Subject Heading:
Football players. Juvenile fiction.
Hearing impaired children. Juvenile fiction.
Friendship. Juvenile fiction.
Football players. Fiction.
Hearing impaired children. Fiction.
Friendship. Fiction.

Language: English

Word Count: 68,300

Reading Level: 4.9

Interest Level: 4-7

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.9 / points: 10.0 / quiz: 184494 / grade: Middle Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:4.7 / points:15.0 / quiz:Q69442

Lexile: 800L

Perfect for fans of Mike Lupica! New York Times bestselling author and former NFL player Tim Green delivers a heartwarming and inspiring story about a deaf boy’s journey to change how others see him—both on and off the football field. Now in paperback. 

Landon Dorch wants to be like everyone else. But his deafness and the way he talks have always felt like insurmountable obstacles. But now he finally sees his chance to fit in. Bigger and taller than any other seventh grader in his new school, Landon plans to use his size to his advantage and join the school’s football team. But the same speech problems and the cochlear implants that help him hear continue to haunt him.

Just when it looks like Landon will be left out of football for good, an unlikely friend comes along. But in the end only Landon can fight his way off the bench and through a crowded field of bullies bent on seeing him forever left out.