Devon's+book+report

__ **Book Report** __ **Directions: Answer all 8 of the questions/statements in complete sentences. Feel free to add a related picture to your report.** **1.** ** What is the title of your book and who is the author?** __Crackback__ by John Coy **2.** ** Name and describe two main characters.** Coach Stahl the annoying screamer and Miles Manning the its my way or nothing **3.** **Write a summary of your book.** This story is about a average teenage boy named Miles Manning,Who plays high school football as a starter but when coach Sepiloski gets diagnosed with a disease everything goes wrong. Miles Manning was living well starting on a football team with the patensial to win states, His best friend on his team is starting, getting good grades, going to parties alot. Then everything changed he lost his starting spot, he got asked to do steroids, his parents started to fight, he got beat up by a kid, he got yelled at by his dad and by his coach. After this started happening he met a girl name Lucia, the first thing he was happy about in about a month. Mies really liked Lucia but never had the guts to say something to her. The things started to get worse and Miles was in desprate need of a talk to a friend. Zach his best frend still was doing steroids and hanging out with other kids and mom and dad were still fighting. Finally before a big game he builded the guts to tak to lucia. It was a regular afternoon and people were leaving for the game and goofing off after the talk Miles was pretty disapointed beause he learned that Lucia wasnt here on weekends.After the game that they lost Mils was pretty disapointed and pretty disconfadint to make it to states. In the end of the story Miles gets to in as a linebacker and blocked a field goal to go to the playoffs. After the big game everyone was happy but Coach Stahl he said that Miles wont play again this year because he was sepposed to watch for the fake. The next day Miles told Lucia everything and asked her if she wnted to go out that night she said yes and that was the start to when Miles Manning started to become popular again.
 * Name:Devon Date:11/30/09**

Something that makes a god book is detail and good thought. Also someting is dialog and adventure through your mind. **Big Question #2: What would make this book better?** As a critic, it’s important to be honest. And honestly, some parts of some books are pretty bad. I think that this author sould make a sequal to the book. I think the main idea is about a average teenagers life.
 * The following questions were taken from :** http://www.ttms.org/say_about_a_book/say_about_a_book.htm 
 * Big Question #1: What makes this book good?  **
 * Big Question #3: What’s the one most important thing the author wants you to know?** This is the main idea. It’s almost as though you could squeeze a whole book down to a __single sentence__ and say that’s what it was all about.

**Big Question #4: Why did the writer write this?** Why did the author bother to tell this story? What is it about this particular story that the author thought was so important? Was it just for fun or to teach something? I think the author told this story to encourages kids ot to do drugs and to learn about what a life of a teenager would be like.

**Big Question #5: What does the audience need to know to understand and enjoy the book?** In other words, what background knowledge would be good to have prior to reading this book? Something that you would need to know is the game of football and you would need to know what steroids are and what they do.