Swagger, Carl Deuker
Swagger, Carl Deuker
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Swagger

Author: Carl Deuker

Narrator: Charlie Thurston

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

High school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line. Levi was simple, like a child. It was the best thing about him, and it was the worst, too. When high school senior Jonas moves to Seattle, he is glad to meet Levi, a nice, soft-spoken guy and fellow basketball player. Suspense builds like a slow drumbeat as readers start to smell a rat in Ryan Hartwell, a charismatic basketball coach and sexual predator. When Levi reluctantly tells Jonas that Hartwell abused him, Jonas has to decide whether he should risk his future career to report the coach. Pitch-perfect basketball plays, well-developed characters, and fine storytelling make this heartbreaking psychological sports novel a slam dunk.

About Carl Deuker

Carl Deuker is the author of many sports novels, including On the Devil's Court, Heart of a Champion, and Painting the Black, all of which were selected as ALA Best Books for Young Adults. He lives in Seattle, Washington.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Elzburg) on July 30, 2019

RTC. Until then, my notes: • this book has the most actual playtime out of any sports novel I've ever read so far • i really dislike the really short chapters • i really dislike the juvenile writing style, however it does perfectly match the main character • i'm in actual mourning after the author *majo......more

Goodreads review by Phil on December 29, 2018

My least favorite of the three Deuker books I've read. The characters and situations were so convenient that the whole thing felt like a puppet show. It was like Deuker wrote the ending first and then just plugged in whatever would get him there the fastest. In Gym Candy, Deuker painted a picture of......more

Goodreads review by Caleb on May 22, 2019

Swagger by Carl Deuker. I thought the book was very interesting and very surprising. Their were many exciting parts of the book. This book was around 300 pages and fit in plenty of detail in the book. Like at the beginning of the book, he told me where his family lived Seattle and how his mom is a b......more

Goodreads review by J. on August 23, 2019

I was not expecting Levi to die. The way he changes and then he dies, it's so goddamm sad because Levi was such a sweet person. And yet it made perfect sense that it would go this way for him because that's how predators like Ryan work. The basketball terms did got over my head but I was invested in......more

Goodreads review by Billy on March 01, 2018

This book was very good and hard to put down. There were no slow parts and new things were always happening. In the end, it did get sad, but overall this book is a five-star read.......more