Second Impact: Making the Hardest Call of All

By David Klass and Perri Klass

Book Overview

Kendall is football town, and Jerry Downing is the high school's star quarterback, working to redeem himself after he nearly killed a girl in a drunk driving accident last year. Carla Jenson, lead reporter for the school newspaper's sports section, has recruited Jerry to co-author a blog chronicling the season from each of their perspectives. When Jerry's best friend on the team takes a hit too hard and gets hurt, Carla wonders publicly if injury in the game comes at too high a cost in a player's life--but not everyone in Kendall wants to hear it...

David Klass and Perri Klass's Second Impact is an action-packed story will resonate with readers who have been following recent news stories are football injuries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374379963
• ISBN13: 9780374379964
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary