The Million Dollar Shot

This is an author that my fourth grader adores. He just started playing basketball and has played soccer since he was two years old. I bought this book because I figured it was different that the usual books he reads by Dan Gutman. HE LOVED IT! My son reads on a 6th-7th grade reading level and he finished this book in two nights. He could not put it down. Product arrived exactly as described. Thank you!

This book was a little bit slow in the beginning, but when the action started it really captured my nine-year-old grandson's interest. The ending was great and we enjoyed reading it together.

My fourth grade class loved this book!!!

SPOILERJust read this book as leader of my son's 2nd grade book club. The kid enters the contest by submitting his friend's poem as his own, yet this is never addressed morally in the book. This is fraud, and should have disqualified his entry into the contest, whether the friend gave him permission or not. It definitely came across to me that everyone, aside from the main character, the poem writer and their families, assumed the main character had written the poem.To quote the book, page 20, "All you had to do to enter the contest was send in ten Finkle box tops and an original poem about Finkles. The kid with the best poem would be chosen to shoot the million dollar shot."I know the book does not mention the specific rules for the contest, other than it's not open to employees of the company or their family members, but most of us know that, in a real life contest such as this, it is implied, if not outright stated, that the contest applicant is required to be the writer of the poem. Technically, you could say this book doesn't mention that so we can't assume it, but I still have a problem with how it is portrayed in the story. To me, the friend is the one who should have submitted that poem and taken the basketball shot.This is not something I want my son being taught as "OK," and it is the main point of the whole book that I will always remember--which is sad.

I loved it in 3rd grade When it was first released and my son loved it now, blew through it 2 days

Read this book with my daughter for book club and I really enjoyed it. I loved the writing style, I loved the message and I thought it was captivating.

I started this new thing with my 8 year old because he doesn't like to read. I buy us both the same book & we read a chapter then talk about our favorite part & what we think is going to happen next. This book had us both ready to keep reading more! Great story line & it kept my son interested. I hope the other series are just as good!!

I've loved this book for some time now. I recently bought it to encourage a 9 year old basketball player to read for fun. Delightful.