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Grade 7 Up—The isolated tundra town of Barrow, AK—traditional home to an Inupiat Eskimo whaling community—might not seem like the ideal place to start a football program. But, faced with escalating teen dropout rates and boredom-borne substance-abuse problems, the superintendent of North Slope Borough Schools stubbornly worked to create the Barrow High School Whalers. The team first suited up and began practicing on their barren, rock-riddled gridiron in 2006—once, that is, they had actually figured out how to put on their pads. With a team presumably more prepared to hurl harpoons than 30-yard touchdown passes, and the nearest "crosstown" rival hundreds of seemingly impassible miles away, the Whalers drew the attention of ESPN, which aired a human-interest piece on their improbable initial season. The segment drew the attention of one Floridian football mom who, convinced of the sport's redemptive powers in channeling youthful energies, raised enough money for an artificial turf field and attendance at a football camp in Florida. Her pigskin philanthropy seemed to galvanize once-wavering community support, and what follows is a game-by-game account of their emergent second season—one in which the team learns to win and to lose as a cohesive unit, and does so with nearly perfect dignity. Though the book probes a bit less into the individual teen lives potentially salvaged by adopting a completely alien Lower 48 sport than one might have hoped, it does, nevertheless, provide rare insight into adolescent, academic, and family life on America's quickly changing final frontier.—Jeffrey Hastings, Highlander Way Middle School, Howell, MI
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Say you are a fan of Thoroughbred racing, but you are a little hazy about Whirlaway’s Triple Crown campaign in 1941, or even Seattle Slew’s march to glory in 1977. If so, this is the book for you. Drape, the current turf writer for the New York Times, has combed his paper’s archives for the most memorable writing about the Triple Crown races—the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont. There are guest pieces by such literary lights as Laura Hillenbrand and Bill Barich, but the bulk of the articles are by the Times’ own turf writers, who have included the incomparable Red Smith, the keenly observant Steven Crist, and Drape himself, who proves to be as adept at organizing these myriad clippings as he is at evoking the beauty and excitement of his favorite sport. These brief pieces weren’t designed to be read in one sitting, but most racing fans will begin with Sir Barton’s 1919 Kentucky Derby win and all too soon find themselves at Rags to Riches’ victory in last year’s Belmont. --Dennis Dodge
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Grade 7 Up—The isolated tundra town of Barrow, AK—traditional home to an Inupiat Eskimo whaling community—might not seem like the ideal place to start a football program. But, faced with escalating teen dropout rates and boredom-borne substance-abuse problems, the superintendent of North Slope Borough Schools stubbornly worked to create the Barrow High School Whalers. The team first suited up and began practicing on their barren, rock-riddled gridiron in 2006—once, that is, they had actually figured out how to put on their pads. With a team presumably more prepared to hurl harpoons than 30-yard touchdown passes, and the nearest "crosstown" rival hundreds of seemingly impassible miles away, the Whalers drew the attention of ESPN, which aired a human-interest piece on their improbable initial season. The segment drew the attention of one Floridian football mom who, convinced of the sport's redemptive powers in channeling youthful energies, raised enough money for an artificial turf field and attendance at a football camp in Florida. Her pigskin philanthropy seemed to galvanize once-wavering community support, and what follows is a game-by-game account of their emergent second season—one in which the team learns to win and to lose as a cohesive unit, and does so with nearly perfect dignity. Though the book probes a bit less into the individual teen lives potentially salvaged by adopting a completely alien Lower 48 sport than one might have hoped, it does, nevertheless, provide rare insight into adolescent, academic, and family life on America's quickly changing final frontier.—Jeffrey Hastings, Highlander Way Middle School, Howell, MI
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Say you are a fan of Thoroughbred racing, but you are a little hazy about Whirlaway’s Triple Crown campaign in 1941, or even Seattle Slew’s march to glory in 1977. If so, this is the book for you. Drape, the current turf writer for the New York Times, has combed his paper’s archives for the most memorable writing about the Triple Crown races—the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont. There are guest pieces by such literary lights as Laura Hillenbrand and Bill Barich, but the bulk of the articles are by the Times’ own turf writers, who have included the incomparable Red Smith, the keenly observant Steven Crist, and Drape himself, who proves to be as adept at organizing these myriad clippings as he is at evoking the beauty and excitement of his favorite sport. These brief pieces weren’t designed to be read in one sitting, but most racing fans will begin with Sir Barton’s 1919 Kentucky Derby win and all too soon find themselves at Rags to Riches’ victory in last year’s Belmont. --Dennis Dodge
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