Halfback Attack (Matt Christopher Sports Classics)

By Matt Christopher

Book Overview

Freddie Chase is a good football player with one major flaw: He's afraid to tackle. He tries hard to cover up his fear, but soon Coach Sears and the other Sandpipers know all about it. The team is fighting to finish the season at the top of the league, but how can they hope to succeed when one of their players lets the opposition run right by him? Coach Sears has no choice but to take Freddie out of the lineup. Now it's up to Freddie to earn his way back onto the starting team. But can he overcome his fear?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316137952
• ISBN13: 9780316137959
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 3 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

The Crackerjack Halfback

Crackerjack Halfback By: Matt Christopher The book I read was Crackerjack Halfback. The author is Matt Christopher. A boy on the football team named Freddie Chase is having a problem. Freddie's problem is that he is afraid to tackle. Freddie knows he has to suck up his fear or he will lose his position. Now they are in a position and need to win and Freddie missed some tackles. Coach Sears knows he has to take him out of the game. Now Freddie has to try hard to gain his spot back. Wonder if he can over come that fear. I would recommend this book to kids that are worried about fears or problems they have and want to over come their problem or fear. Also kids that are truly in love with football.

crackerjack halfback

Crackerjack Halfback This is a story about a boy named Freddie that can not tackle in football. The main character is Freddie he wants to play football. So he wants to play for the Sandpipers. He goes to practice and the coach finds out that he has a weakness. He and his mom enter duce themselves to the coach and coaches son so they talk for awhile then the coach said does Freddie want to go see a football film tomorrow night. Freddie said sure I would like to. So Freddie gets home from school and gets ready to go. The coach is here said Freddie so he gets in the car and on the way to the movie they were on the road and on the road there was a semi truck. And the coach was taking a short cut and the truck was going fast and almost ran into the coach and ran him off the road and the coach ran into a fence and the car went into the river. So they were in the river then they all wake up and water was coming into the car and someone saw them in the river then they said im going to call for help. Then they are at there last game so it all started that Freddie was playing linebacker he wasn't playing so good so the coach said Freddie come sit out so he did and the coach said I know you can hit so we are going to put you in the next play and the coach said it's next play so go so it was next play and they were running it so he flew right past Freddie and Freddie had to get him he ran and he got the tackle and that was the end of the 4th ot and the Sandpipers.

The Crakerjack Halfback Review

The book Crackerjack Halfback by Matt Christopher is about a boy named Freddie Chase who is a football player.Freddies problem is he is scared to tackle.Freddie plays on the team called the Sandpipers and they're fighting to finish in first place.His coach named Coach Sears and his team mates are depending him.I've played football for five years and I can relate to Freddies touchdown experiences.I remember my coach yelling at me like Freddie's coach did to him.My practices were hard like his. I like the book because its about football.My favorite parts were the games he played in.I would not change the ending of the book or its ending because it all work out for eveybody in the end. I would recommend this book to another person because its about football.The type of person who would like this book is a person who likes football like me.

The Crakerjack Halfback Review

The book Crackerjack Halfback by Matt Christopher is about a boy named Freddie Chase who is a football player.Freddies problem is he is scared to tackle.Freddie plays on the team called the Sandpipers and they're fighting to finish in first place.His coach named Coach Sears and his team mates are depending him.I've played football for five years and I can relate to Freddies touchdown experiences.I remember my coach yelling at me like Freddie's coach did to him.My practices were hard like his. I like the book because its about football.My favorite parts were the games he played in.I would not change the ending of the book or its ending because it all work out for eveybody in the end. I would recommend this book to another person because its about football.The type of person how would like this book is a person how likes football like me.