What a captivating story!
Harrison, an eighth grader, has been in and out of foster homes all of his life. The story begins with him living at a farm where he works hard and is treated with contempt and disrespect.
His anger gets the best of him one day and he finds himself on a path of despair. One kind social worker sees through his anger and circumstances and provides a second chance. . .with her own daughter and son-in-law. The son-in-law, "Coach", happens to be a junior high football coach and helps Harrison redirect his anger to the aggression needed to play football well.
Then Harrison finds a new challenge-cancer and an amputated leg.
A story of perseverance and unrelenting love.
The Coach and his wife pray before meals and regularly attend church but God is not mentioned in their daily lives and decisions. Those added pieces (prayer and church) were refreshing in a secular, fiction book, though!
Points to discuss/warnings: physical/ental/emotional abuse; Harrison contributes to the farmer foster parent's death; some boys in the story are really mean to Harrison; cancer; death
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