Friday, May 30, 2008

The Million Dollar Kick
By Dan Gutman

The Million Dollar Kick, by Dan Gutman is one of his better-known books for teens. The character Dan introduces in this book is Whisper Nelson. Whisper is a teenage girl who doesn’t fit in at school. She is terrible at sports but soon she has to do something that is almost impossible. She is entered into a drawing and she wins it. But to win the contest, she has to shoot a soccer ball by a professional goalie at twenty yards, and if she does this, she wins a million dollars. Except she has only played soccer once in her life and she scored on her own team. Here is Whisper’s story about what stands between her and a million dollars!

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