Tournament Upstart [Library Binding]

Thomas J. Dygard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1999

Under the leadership of their new young coach, a Class B high school basketball team from the Ozark foothills challenges big-city schools for the state championship.

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Product Details

• Library Binding
• Publisher: Bt Bound (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0833533843
• ISBN-13: 978-0833533845
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Tournament Upstart, January 10, 2008

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This review is from: Tournament Upstart (Paperback)

Thomas J. Dygard's suspense in Tournament Upstart will keep you on the edge of your seat. Dygard writes a lot of sports action adventure books for people from teens to adults.

Dygard is known for his game descriptions and his ability to build suspense, mainly through dialogue. In Tournament Upstart, Dygard does a nice job using tons of dialogue to set up characters, setting, and plot. I love good sports stories that relate to sports I play, and let me tell you, I definitely love this book. It just makes you want to keep on reading.

The setting that Dygard uses for most of the story is in the arena at Talbott State University for the tournament. Dygard telling us about them sets up all the characters. The whole story is about this small team who is normally in division 2, trying to make it in division 1. They play tough teams and go through some troubles because this new kid is on the team who came from a big city and is not used of the small town. They try to come together and play basketball as a team and try to win the division 1 tournament. Of course you almost fall off your chair when you read the ending, because all of his books make you do that at the end.

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2.0 out of 5 stars This Indiana boy thought it was alright, May 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Tournament Upstart (Paperback)

Yes Tournament Upstart was a pretty good book if you ask me, but it could have been better. There were very heart warming parts in this book, but there were also parts that left me wondering what was going on. I liked the story about them off the court, but I thought the game scenes could be a little more discriptive. Now and then I thought the writer didn't know what he was talking about. There were times in some of the games were I was lost and confused (might just be me). The reason I read the book was to get some good basketball action like the state tournament around here, and I didn't get any out of this book. The games weren't described in enought detail for me (again probably just me). There were many times I felt there was something familiar about the story (anyone seen the movie Hoosiers?), the coach's motivational speeches were just a little familiar. This is what kept me from really liking the book but all in all it was alright.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Tournament Upstart, January 8, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Tournament Upstart (Library Binding)

When I first started reading Tournament Upstart I tought it was going to be a book only about basketball. The more I read the more there were other things then basketball. It talked a lot about a kid on the basketball team that was trying to fit in, but had a hard time. They Falcons (the main team in the story)are a small school team, but their new coach thinks they are better then to just play in the B bracket, like they always do. So he signs them up for the A bracket everyone in the little town was angry they thaught he was going to embarrass them. When they got to the big school where the tournament was going to be held they were stund, because all the teams had brand new jersys, the best shoes, and fashonable hair cuts. They're first game was going to be against the last years champs, the Trojans. They played great and won, no one could beleive it. They also won their next game. That ment that they were going to play in the championship game. I wont tell you if they won or not I want you to read the book and find out. The reason I rated this book a four out five is it was really exciting and kept me at the edge of my seat when I read it. The reason why it wasn't a five is sometimes it got a bit too discreptive. Other then that I thaught it was a great book and you should read it.