The underdogs

By Mike Lupica

Subjects: nyt:chapter_books=2011-09-17, Community life, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Football, Fiction, Football, fiction, Children's fiction, Pennsylvania, fiction, Football stories, New York Times bestseller, Community life

Description: Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.