Hero by Mike Lupica
Jair Nobles still remembers how great it felt. After he and Zander Peterson rescued two girls at a party that got out of hand, other students were full of admiration. Acceptance felt great. But the attention was short-lived. His old life hadn't been happy, but at least it felt familiar. Looking back, he could remember one bright moment. The night everyone thought he was a hero. He would do anything to feel like that again. Anything.Capital Central High School, or Cap Central as the students like to call it, is in the northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. Any urban school faces broad challenges, and Cap Central is no different. But some tight-knit juniors meet the difficulties head-on with courage, friendship, determination, and hard work.
He began his newspaper career covering the New York Knicks for the New York Post at age 23. He became the youngest columnist ever at a New York paper with the New York Daily News, which he joined in 1977. For more than 30 years, Lupica has added magazines, novels, sports biographies, other non-fiction books on sports, as well as television to his professional resume. For the past fifteen years, he has been a TV anchor for ESPN's The Sports Reporters. He also hosted his own program, The Mike Lupica Show on ESPN2.
In 1987, Lupica launched The Sporting Life column in Esquire magazine. He has published articles in other magazines, including Sport, World Tennis, Tennis, Golf Digest, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, ESPN: The Magazine, Men's Journal and Parade. He has received numerous honors, including the 2003 Jim Murray Award from the National Football Foundation.
Mike Lupica co-wrote autobiographies with Reggie Jackson and Bill Parcells, collaborated with noted author and screenwriter, William Goldman on Wait 'Till Next Year, and wrote The Summer of '98, Mad as Hell: How Sports Got Away from the Fans and How We Get It Back and Shooting From the Lip, a collection of columns. In addition, he has written a number of novels, including Dead Air, Extra Credits, Limited Partner, Jump, Full Court Press, Red Zone, Too Far and national bestsellers Wild Pitch and Bump and Run. Dead Air was nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Mystery and became a CBS television move, Money, Power, Murder to which Lupica contributed the teleplay. Over the years he has been a regular on the CBS Morning News, Good Morning America and The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour. On the radio, he has made frequent appearances on Imus in the Morning since the early 1980s.
His previous young adult novels, Travel Team, Heat, Miracle on 49th Street, and the summer hit for 2007, Summer Ball, have shot up the New York Times bestseller list. Lupica is also what he describes as a serial Little League coach, a youth basketball coach, and a soccer coach for his four children, three sons and a daughter. He and his family live in Connecticut.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780399252839 |
| ISBN 10 | 0399252835 |
| Title | Hero |
| Author | Mike Lupica |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Philomel Books |
| Year published | 2010-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Winner of Georgia Children's Book Award (Children's Book) 2013, Winner of South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Junior Book) 2012, Short-listed for Bluebonnet Awards 2013, Short-listed for Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Grades 6-8) 2012, Short-listed for Nevada Young Readers' Award (Intermediate) 2014, Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2012, Short-listed for Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Grades 6-8) 2012, Short-listed for Delaware Diamonds Award (Middle School) 2011 |
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