by Tim Green
Tim Green lives with his wife and their five children in upstate New York. You can visit him online at www.timgreenbooks.com.
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Books by Tim Green
FOOTBALL GENIUS NOVELS
Football Genius
Football Hero
Football Champ
The Big Time
Deep Zone
Perfect Season
Left Out
BASEBALL GREAT NOVELS
Baseball Great
Rivals
Best of the Best
Home Run
AND DON’T MISS
Pinch Hit
Force Out
Unstoppable
New Kid
First Team
Kid Owner
Touchdown Kid
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Copyright
THE BIG GAME. Copyright © 2018 by Tim Green. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Green, Tim, author.
Title: The big game / Tim Green.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] | Summary: Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018013363 | ISBN 9780062485045 (hardback)
Subjects: | CYAC: Football—Fiction. | Junior high schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Literacy—Fiction. | Counseling—Fiction. | Fathers and sons—Fiction. | Family life—Texas—Fiction. | Texas—Fiction. | BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Sports & Recreation / Football. | JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Special Needs. | JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General.
Classification: LCC PZ7.G826357 Bid 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018013363
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Digital Edition AUGUST 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-248562-5
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-248504-5
1819202122CG/LSCH10987654321
FIRST EDITION
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