Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four (the Sports Beat, 1)

by John Feinstein

Book Overview

New York Times bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein exposes the real "March Madness"--behind the scenes at the Final Four basketball tournament.

When Stevie wins a writing contest for aspiring sports journalists, his prize is a press pass to the Final Four in New Orleans. While exploring the Superdome, he overhears a plot to throw the championship game. With the help of fellow contest winner Susan Carol, Stevie has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553494600
• ISBN13: 9780553494600
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Yearling Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Nonstop action

Last Shot Knopf, 2005, 251 p.p., $16.95 John Feinstein 0-375-83168-1 Steven Thomas is living a dream. After winning a writing contest, he is in New Orleans as a reporter covering the Final Four. But, the dream takes a turn when Steven and fellow winner Susan Carol overhear a warning to MSU's star point guard to lose the championship game, or else. As Steven and Susan Carol start to uncover the mystery, the less real answers they get. Last Shot by John Feinstein is a sports mystery thriller. The page-turner is best for ages eight to fourteen. It is told in third person. The book wil make you begging for more. Stevie and Susan Carol will make you laugh out loud with their jokes and lies and beg for mercy with what they get themselves into. If you have read and liked Matt Christipher books, and also like mysteries, you will thouroughly enjoy this. I reccomend this for anyone who would like to both laugh and be scared out of their wits all in two-hundred fifty-one pages of nonstop action. -Townes Bouchard-Dean

Last Shot by: John Feinstein by Hunter

I love reading a book that combines mystery with exciting action and interesting characters. John Feinstein did an amazing job on this book! Basicaly, this book is about two kids, Stevie and Susan Carol, who won an article competion. They get to write about sports. They get to be reporters for the Final Four! What a chance! MSU`s star player, Chip Graber, was being threatened by a blackmailer, who turns out to be a profesor at his school. The FBI catch the blackmailer and people who were in on it. All and all, an AWESOME book to me becauseI LOVE collage b-ball,( especially Michigan), and I LOVE the Final Four! This was a good read that kept me reading more & more. I can't wait now, to read the vanishing act; which is the next one in this series.

Last Shot

Last Shot by John Feinstein was an amazing book! As soon as I opened it to read it caught my eye. The book was a thrilling basketball and writing mystery that was terrific! Last Shot was about two kids named Stevie and Susan Carol who both win a writing contest and get to go to the final four to be reporters there. While they are on their trip, they get into a big blackmailing situation with Chip Graber, the best player for MSU. Stevie and Susan Carol have to go all over town and are very busy trying to help Chip and they have to lie to their fathers about what they are doing. I am so glad to have read Last Shot! It was an incredible book and I loved reading a book that kept making me turn the pages to want to read more! I advise many to read it because it was definitley a terrific book to share with everyone!

Great Basketball Mystery

If you like basketball and mysteries, then Last Shot by John Feinstein is the book for you. It is awesome book for ages 10 and up. This is about the Final Four in New Orleans. Stevie and Susan are in 8th grade. Stevie is short for his age he has never been to a basketball game before and is real excited. Susan is tall and pretty Stevie doesn't like her much because she likes Duke the Basketball team and she is much taller than him and also she is very good looking. They both win a writing contest permitting them to go to the Final Four in New Orleans. Since they win the contest, they get special journalist passes to sit in on all the meetings, practices and great seats to the games. They are each having a great time until they over hear a disturbing conversation. One of the star athletes Chip Graber is being blackmailed and if he doesn't throw the championship game then his career may be in jeopardy. But when Susan and Stevie team up with Chip to find out who is involved and to prove he is innocent, they get stuck in the middle of it. If Chip doesn't throw the game then it maybe Susan and Stevie's life that may be at stake. I thought this was the best realistic fiction book that I have read in a long time. The first couple of chapters were boring, but after that I just couldn't stop reading it. This book is a real page-turner.

Great story!

My 11-year-old son and I listened to the author read the audiobook version on a recent car trip, and we loved it. The story kept us guessing and certainly made the trip seem to go by quickly. I will be buying a copy for my school library.