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Something for Joey

Written by Richard PeckAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Richard Peck
Juvenile Fiction - Social Situations - Death & Dying | Laurel Leaf | Paperback | March 1983 | $6.50 | 978-0-553-27199-7 (0-553-27199-7)

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Together, they won college football's highest award.



This is a true, memorable, compassionate story of courage and love between two brothers. In 1973, while John Cappelletti was winning the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding college football player in America, his younger brother Joey was suffering from leukemia. But John, now a running back for the Los Angeles Rams, had a very special medicine for Joey. It was called touchdowns. And John scored them in bunches because they were "Something for Joey." The story of the Cappelletti family is a story of courage you will never forget.