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Tournaments, Cocoa & One Wrong Move

#3 in series

by Nancy N. Rue
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In this YA contemporary novel from bestselling author Nancy Rue, perfectionism and steroid addiction collide in the life of one teen, whose carefully controlled world slowly falls apart.

Basketball is Cassidy Brewster's life, and she is the biggest star on her high school team. But when a routine jump shot leaves her crumpled on the floor with a torn ACL, everything comes crashing down.

Cassidy would do anything to get back on the floor, away from the tensions at home. Without her future basketball career to distract him, her father is picking even more fights, and her older brother is accusing Cass of purposely injuring herself so their parents can't help him financially. So when her future sister-in-law offers a solution she promises is a quick fix to everyone's problems, Cassidy pushes aside her trepidation and begins taking the offered pills. But then her problems really start. And not even a mysterious book and the friendship of fellow "loser" and possible crush Rafe may be enough to make everything right again.

Tournaments, Cocoa & One Wrong Move:

  • uses a fictional story to explore the realities of prescription drug addiction
  • features protagonists who are dealing with anxiety and parental abuse
  • provides an inspirational message for those dealing with tough circumstances
  • is the third book in the Real Life series, but can also be read as a stand-alone novel

    • Creators

    • Series

      Real Life

    • Publisher

    • Release date

      October 5, 2010

    • Formats

      • Kindle Book

      • OverDrive Read

        • ISBN: 9780310577485

      • EPUB ebook

        • ISBN: 9780310577485
        • File size: 2118 KB

    • Languages

      • English

    • Levels

      • ATOS Level: 4.6
      • Interest Level: 6-12(MG+)
      • Text Difficulty: 3

    • Reviews

      • Kirkus

        October 1, 2010

        Cassidy is a gifted basketball player, so when she lands wrong and blows out her ACL in a key game, it doesn't just foul up the season, it jeopardizes her ability to win a college scholarship, and MRIs, surgery and physical therapy don't come cheap. When her brother's fiancée, a med student, offers her a shortcut, she leaps at it. Readers will know long before Cassidy does what those "supplements" really are, but they'll bleed with her when she is suspended for steroid use and ostracized. As with the series opener, Motorcycles, Sushi & One Strange Book (2010), the real narrative arc is how Cassidy negotiates her emotional healing with the help of the mysterious RL book, a teenspeak Bible with a mind of its own that guides her to exactly the right stories to help her along the way. A bevy of sympathetic secondary teen characters keeps the predictable story enjoyable. Her hypercompetitive father, truculent brother, once-distant-now-supportive mother and saintly physical therapist stretch believability, but Cassidy's likable enough that readers will probably stick with her anyway. (Fiction. 12 & up)

        (COPYRIGHT (2010) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

      • Kirkus

        October 1, 2010

        Cassidy is a gifted basketball player, so when she lands wrong and blows out her ACL in a key game, it doesn't just foul up the season, it jeopardizes her ability to win a college scholarship, and MRIs, surgery and physical therapy don't come cheap. When her brother's fianc�e, a med student, offers her a shortcut, she leaps at it. Readers will know long before Cassidy does what those "supplements" really are, but they'll bleed with her when she is suspended for steroid use and ostracized. As with the series opener, Motorcycles, Sushi & One Strange Book (2010), the real narrative arc is how Cassidy negotiates her emotional healing with the help of the mysterious RL book, a teenspeak Bible with a mind of its own that guides her to exactly the right stories to help her along the way. A bevy of sympathetic secondary teen characters keeps the predictable story enjoyable. Her hypercompetitive father, truculent brother, once-distant-now-supportive mother and saintly physical therapist stretch believability, but Cassidy's likable enough that readers will probably stick with her anyway. (Fiction. 12 & up)

        (COPYRIGHT (2010) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

    Formats

    • Kindle Book
    • OverDrive Read
    • EPUB ebook

    subjects

    Languages

    • English

    Levels

    • ATOS Level:4.6
    • Interest Level:6-12(MG+)
    • Text Difficulty:3

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