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LAST SHOT: A FINAL FOUR MYSTERY John Feinstein Hardcover | Knopf Books for Young Readers | February 2005 | $16.95 | 0-375-83168-1 | Ages 10 up Hardcover Library Binding | Knopf Books for Young Readers | February 2005 | $18.99 | 0-375-93168-6 | Ages 10 up

For Steven Thomas, winning a writing contest that lands him right in the middle of the men’s Final Four basketball tournament is a dream come true. What he’s not excited about, however, is the other winner in the contest—Susan Carol Anderson . The two eighth graders are given press passes and allowed to attend practices and interviews that the general public is barred from. While at the Superdome watching the players warm up, Susan and Steven overhear a conversation between a man in a suit and Minnesota State ’s star player, Chip Graber. From what the kids can tell, the man in the suit tells Chip he’d better throw the game, otherwise his coach, who is also his father, will be out of a job. Realizing Chip is being blackmailed, the two come up with a plan to help him. Once they gain Chip’s trust, however, they quickly realize that the motives behind the blackmailer are more complicated than they had anticipated. Will they be able to expose the truth before the final game, or will their involvement with Chip cost them their lives?

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Prepared by Brenda Day, Library Media Specialist, Crowley Middle School, Crowley, Texas

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