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Touchdown Tony Crowne and the Mystery of the Missing Cheerleader (Tony Crowne Mystery Book 1) by [Peter Guy George]

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Touchdown Tony Crowne and the Mystery of the Missing Cheerleader (Tony Crowne Mystery Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Peter Guy George (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 1 of 4: Tony Crowne Mystery

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A family-friendly sports mystery packed with action and adventure…for the 9 to 12 age group...

Tony Crowne is a backup quarterback and aspiring detective who has his share of troubles: He hates the nickname his father gave him, his eighty-pound dog clobbers his mother and grandfather at breakfast and he gets into a fight with the biggest kid in school.
Worst of all, his best friend, cheerleader Ashley Richardson, disappears the morning before Tony’s big football game.
Did she run away? Was she kidnapped? Is she alive?
Now, Tony must help his team win the big game and help a retired police detective find Ashley before it’s too late.
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Bonus: This edition contains an excerpt from Peter Guy George's new Tony Crowne mystery, "The Tiny Heist."

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9 - 12 years, from customers
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201 pages
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English
Grade level

3 - 7
Publication date

November 20, 2013
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Peter Guy George hangs out somewhere in the lower 48 states and loves to read and write about sports, mysteries and adventures. He mainly writes books that appeal to the kid in all of us. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GWZYYOU
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hornbeck House; 2nd edition (November 20, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 20, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 337 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 201 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #35,198 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2 in Children's Football Books (Kindle Store)
- #11 in Children's Spy Books
- #17 in Children's Detectives Books

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Peter Guy George

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Peter Guy George never met a book he didn't like...okay, that's not entirely true, but it's mostly true.

In any event, Peter hangs out somewhere in the lower 48 states and loves to read and write about sports, mysteries and adventures.

He mainly writes books that appeal to the kid in all of us.

For more information, visit Peter at his website: http://peterguygeorge.com/

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Reacher Creature

Glad it was free.

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2015

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I had such high hopes for this book. It sounded good. Tony is on the football team, and his friend goes missing, and it's up to Tony and his friend to find her. With all of this going on, he has a football game to win. Like I said, this sounded good, but this was a let down.

First off, the characters are paper thin with no depth to them. I found them annoying and unlikeable. I really disliked the lead cop in this. He was nothing more than a buffoon. At one point he was following someone, then he tells us how hungry he is.

Writing style, and this one was a mess. 1) The reader gets bogged down by useless description. I don't need to know what every person is doing at a given time. Then we get the same thing from a different point of view, and that leads to more description. It just goes on and on and on. It really slowed the story down. 2) I like football, but most of the book was about the football game, and that's not what the main plot is about. I'd say that at least 3/4 of this book is how the football game is played. It's obvious that the author is a walking football encyclopedia, unfortunately, he's also a talking football encyclopedia. This is nothing more that fluff to the book. 3) What's with all the exclamation points for punctuation? It was such a distraction. Far too many.

It was obvious who kidnapped the girl, and the reveal is nothing major.

I'm glad the book was free, and I have no interest in reading the other books in the series.

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Jenny Rose

Safe, but ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2014

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Tony Crowne is a 5th grader who plays football for the Bobcats, but dreams of being a detective. His long time friend Ashley wants to be a cheerleader. Her only competition is spoiled Felicity Whitaker. When Ashley doesn't show up to cheer at the big football game against their rivals the Lions, Tony and his new friend Judd test their sleuthing skills.

When this story got to the point, it was fund and inventive. Unfortunately, I thought it took too long to get there and inconsistencies distracted me along the way. The coach's back story was a little long in my opinion—when it was over I had to go back and re-read what happened before it started. Scene transitions were rough in places. Verb tenses didn't always match, and sometimes word choice didn't fit the context. I think I was almost a third of the way into the book before I was really interested in the storyline.

Overall, this story is probably meant more for boys than girls, but it might be too wordy for boys to stay interested. It would be fine for upper elementary—it's safe. I just can't give it a glowing recommendation.

I read this book as a freebie in exchange for an honest review.

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Claude Lambert

Grandpa, put on your glasses and read a chapter aloud every night!

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2014

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Story
Is the story believable? Yes for the audience, not quite for the adults. It doesn't matter. A lot of football, a little detection and a dog is all we need to have a good time.Is it interesting? Yes it is well plotted.
Characters
All the characters are well defined without giving too much details or psychology. They are all slightly goofy, even the dog. It produces cartoon images in your mind. I enjoyed it. It is pretty sweet..
Form
I like very much the choice of style that the author made. I hate books that are confined to 200 words vocabulary because they are "written for kids." It is not overly complicated, just ordinary language. If there is a word that a kid doesn't understand, he/she can look it up or usually understand the word in context: it is how we learn our own language. The author sometimes tries to get you in the action by using the present tense instead of the past. All writers want to do that at one point, it doesn't really work.
This is a good safe and funny family reading.

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Von

Modern Children's Melodrama

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2014

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I haven't read much melodrama recently so this was a nice change. The author contacted me and asked for a review (sending along a free copy, duh) and so I read it. I read it right through, with interest, altho it is out of my normal reading.
I was at first taken a bit aback until I realized I was, essentially, reading a melodrama. I suppose younger kids books are more like that. Anyway, the hero was brave and active, the sidekick was dumb, big, and always helpful; the villenesses (not many books boast vilianesses) were awful and yucky; the young female sidekick (not yet a love interest) got rescued at the last minute and managed to be plucky while being 'saved by her hero'.
All in all a nice, fun, read. Not much in the way of dramatic moral value, but a nice read, and better than most junk nowadays. If you like football, which I don't all that much, I must say the various plays were well written.
Anyway, read on, and feel free to send me more books for review :)

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c-lu

Tony saves the day!

Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2015

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This is a middle grade book about football and Tony Crowne, a middle schooler who has decided he wants to be a detective some day. There's a new guy in town - Judd - and he is the secret weapon the other team, and even the coach, doesn't know about. If there's football there's cheerleaders and the snobby rich girl who wants to be a cheerleader and Tony's friend Ashley who is very talented. When Ashley goes missing, Tony keeps it together to win the game while the adults follow his leads and suspicions. I like Tony - he is the character that the reader gets to know - not just in terms of football, but his relationship with his friends, his parents, and his dog. Hopefully in the later books there is more depth to other characters (and a little less football). I think this book is appropriate for middle grades and will appeal to boys - not so sure about girls.

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Father Ted

"Not my cup of tea"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2018

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I should have known from the cover that this was going to be a lightweight mystery. It purports to be 'aimed at the kid in all of us', but even though my youth is some distance behind me, I wouldn't have enjoyed this story. So, which age group will enjoy it today? Maybe kids go for this writing style.

Mr Raymond Fuller

Possibly next book will be better

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2018

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To much time spent on football moves, not fully understood. Weak story line

A p sophia 5

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 7, 2019

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2018

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Tonia M.

Great for young readers

Reviewed in Canada on November 26, 2014

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I bought this book for my nephew who is a football fanatic but really enjoyed reading this book myself even though I know nothing about football (to my credit, one of my most loved TV show was Friday Night Lights - the first season was a masterpiece!). I especially enjoyed how the story tension built up between the football game and the mystery case resolution. Great cast of characters with a nice added touch of humor. I definitely recommend it. Hopefully there will be more to follow.

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