Football's Greatest Defenders

by Matt Doeden

Overview

Amazing interceptions! Bone crunching sacks! Forced fumbles! Defenders make big plays and bring fans to their feet. Turn the pages to meet some of the pro football's top defenders.  Produced in partnership with Sports Illustrated KIDS.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781491407615
Publisher:	Capstone Press
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Series:	Football's Greatest Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	860L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 14 Years

About the Author

Matt Doeden is a freelance author and editor from Minnesota. He’s written numerous children’s books on sports, music, current events, the military, extreme survival, and much more. His books Sandy Koufax (Twenty-First Century Books, 2006) and Tom Brady: Unlikely Champion (Twenty-First Century Books, 2011) were Junior Library Guild selections. Doeden began his career as a sports writer before turning to publishing. He lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children.

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2014
Gr 4–7—Each book in this "best-of" football series introduces 13 current players. Some, such as Peyton Manning and Tom Brady, are already superstars. Others are just starting out, like Andrew Luck, of the Indianapolis Colts, and Russell Wilson, who led the Seattle Seahawks to a Super Bowl win in his second season. These are fact-based yet admiring sketches; for instance, in Receivers, Calvin "Megatron" Johnson is described as "[having] it all: size, strength, speed, great hands, and off-the-chart athleticism." Each brief player profile is supplemented by color photos, stats, and insets defining a few terms or words. The vague definitions are unhelpful: draft is defined as "the system by which NFL teams select new players" and franchise simply as "team." These short profiles will attract browsers, though the series fails to distinguish itself from others on this popular topic.

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