Back to Pass: A Choose Your Path Football Book

by Lisa M. Bolt Simons

Overview

You’re the main character. You make the choices. Choose to win!

You may have read sports books before, but you’ve never read one like this. You’re the main character, and you’ve played football for most of your life. But without any parents, you’re not only off the team—you don’t go to school anymore. You don’t even have a place to live. When your uncle takes you in, will you get your life in order? And when the local team’s quarterback gets injured, will your skills save their season? Back to Pass isn’t like other football books for kids. With an interactive format, your choices affect the story’s outcome. Plus, it’s a game within a game: Collect points for your decisions in order to upgrade your character’s football skills. So read the book by Lisa M. Bolt Simons, collect the points, and choose to win!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940647272
Publisher:	Adventure Publications, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/19/2017
Series:	Choose to Win
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	9 - 13 Years

About the Author

Lisa M. Bolt Simons has been a teacher for more than 20 years, and she’s been a writer for as long as she can remember. She has written more than 20 nonfiction children’s books, as well as a history book, Faribault Woolen Mill: Loomed in the Land of Lakes, and she is currently working on several other projects. Both her nonfiction and fiction works have been recognized with various accolades. In her spare time, Lisa loves to read and to scrapbook. Originally from Colorado, Lisa currently lives in Minnesota with her husband, Dave, and she’s the mom of twins, Jeri and Anthony. She was a busy sports mom for over a decade.

Read an Excerpt

It’s fourth down and goal to go. The football is just three yards from the end zone—three yards from the win. Your team is trailing, 24–20. You need a touchdown; you need those six points for victory. You glance at the scoreboard. The clock ticks under its final minute. This is your team’s last chance. As the quarterback, it’s up to you to win it. Championships are never easy.

The coach wants you to fake a handoff to the running back, keep the football, and run it into the end zone. You’ve done this before. It might work. It will work.

You call the play in the huddle, and your team lines up. You walk to the line of scrimmage, and you scan the defense. You see an opening. You know what to do. You know where to run.

You glance at your parents in the bleachers. Your mom smiles widely.

Sitting next to her, your dad nods. “You can do it!” he yells.

More shouts come from both sides. It mostly sounds like garbled noise, but every once in a while, you hear a distinct cheer.

“Go Gators!”

“Run the ball!”

The only voices that matter right now are yours and your coach’s.

You put your hands under the center. As you do, the defense shifts; the players change positions. They crowd the line of scrimmage. The hole that you were going to run through closes. The other team knows you’re going to run the football. They’re expecting it.

A quarterback knows how to audible—to change the play at the last second. But this is the championship. Your coach knows more about the game than you do. Should you trust his call and do what he says? The running play still might work. Or should you audible to a pass and do what the defense doesn’t expect?

What will you choose to do?

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book

Your Starting Team

Prologue

1. Runaway

2. Fresh Start

3. First Practice

4. Game Night

5. New Assignment

6. School Meeting

7. Mrs. Beverage

8. The Playoffs

9. Family Reunion

10. Championship

Epilogue

Choose to Win!

About the Author