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    Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery: The Sports Beat, Book 1
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    Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery: The Sports Beat, Book 1

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    About this audiobook

    Danny Jordan is one of two lucky winners of the US Basketball Writer’s Association’s contest for aspiring journalists. His prize? A trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. It’s a basketball junkie’s dream come true!

    But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely competitive than those on the court. Danny and his fellow winner, Brigid-Ann Robinson, are nosing around the Superdome ad overhear what sounds like a threat to throw the championship game. Now they have just 48 hours to figure out who is blackmailing one of MSU’s star players . . . and why.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 8, 2005
    ISBN9781400099368
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    Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery: The Sports Beat, Book 1

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    • 5/5
      A buzzer beater
    • 5/5
      The author's experience and background fully informs this press-pass look at the Cinderella's ball of college basketball. Audiobook review: The sports commentator and writer reads his own youth mystery novel set at the Final Four championship in New Orleans, giving it an appealing authenticity and insider's view for the listener.
    • 3/5
      I thought I would hate this book because it is a sports book and I am so not sports girl, but it was actually pretty good. There are long passages with details about how college basketball works that I could have done without, but I have to admit they were helpful in figuring out how things could affect each other.

      Stevie and Susan Carol win the US Basketball Writers Association young writers award and get to go to the final four in New Orleans to cover the games for smaller papers that can't afford to send someone. They overhear a teacher talking to Chip Graber, one of the most famous and important players at the game, blackmailing him to throw the final game. They mention what they heard to their supervisors but the supervisors think they misheard. They think it's impossible to throw the game. The kids eventually manage to contact Chip and tell him they want to help him. They uncover a gambling operation that relies on Chip losing the game.
    • 4/5
      This was a great fun mystery read that will capture any basketball or mystery fan. The two main characters, Stevie and Susan Carol, are budding journalists who have won a writing contest and therefore get to be journalists during the Final Four contest. While there they stumble directly into a mystery and together work to try to solve the case before the Final Four ends. Well paced, fun, and full of suspense this is a great middle grade book.
    • 4/5
      Stevie cannot believe it at first: the basketball article he submitted has won a student journalism contest and even though he’s only in 8th grade, he’ll be covering the Final Four in New Orleans! Sure, his co-winner, 8th-grader Susan Carol is a foot taller than him and a Duke fan (a team Stevie’s definitely not a fan of), but Stevie’s getting to meet all his sports writing and basketball heroes. He’s having the time of his life, until he and Susan Carol overhear someone blackmailing Chip Graber, the best basketball player in the tournament, to throw the final game. The student journalists try to warn the adults, but of course no one believes them – so it’s up to Stevie and Susan Carol to find out what the blackmailer has on Chip and how to keep the Final Four tournament clean. Investigative journalism wasn’t what they originally came for, but these students aren’t leaving until they blow this story wide open – the only question is, will they survive the explosion?

      Feinstein has packed his story with the famous names surrounding basketball which will thrill sports fans although I was able to enjoy the story without recognizing more than one or two names tops. It would have been nice to have a note at the end of the book about which characters were real and which were fiction. The close-up look at the Final Four was fascinating particularly coming from an insider such as Feinstein who is a sports journalist himself. This would be a good fit, not necessarily for low level readers, but perhaps for reluctant readers with a decided sports bent. I’m looking forward to reading the next book in the series which focuses on tennis as I suspect I’ll recognize more of the characters (tennis is the one sport my family follows).
    • 4/5
       The Last Shot by John Feinstein is a great book. The main character Steve and his new friend Susan Carroll learn something no one in the world is supposed to know. The book is fast moving and doesn’t slow down.Steve and Susan Carroll are eighth graders who won a sports article contest and travel to New Orleans for the final four of March Madness. When they are down there they over hear a man tell MSU’s star player, Chip Graber that he has to throw the championship game. They confront Chip and help him through his problem, but it gets dangerous for them when people find out what they know.From the beginning it jumps straight into the story. It gave a quick introduction then goes strait to what’s happening now. It has a nice transition and moves fast, I could hardly put it down.The Last Shot is a great book. It keeps you guessing and you never want to put it down. I hope anyone who reads it enjoys it as much as me. ryan
    • 5/5
      Stevie Brown and Susan Carol Anderson are 2 up and coming sports reporters. They must save the Final Four from a teacher that wants to ruin it all.
    • 3/5
      Last Shot is the story of how two young sportswriters stumble upon a plot to fix the Final Four. The first of a very good (albeit improbable) series.This book is really good for young sports fans. Pretty good writing, good characters, decent plot.
    • 4/5
      Eighth-graders Stevie and Susan Carol are both winners of a young adult writing contest for the USBWA, thus giving them press passes to college basketball’s big event – the Final Four. While wandering around the Superdome looking for a story, Stevie and Susan Carol overhear someone threatening one of the star players into fixing the final game. Before they know it, Stevie and Susan Carol are in over their heads trying to prevent the blackmail scheme from succeeding. The book was a bit slow in the beginning, explaining a great deal about college basketball before finally getting to the mystery around page 50. After that, the pace picked up and the plot was a lot more compelling. Overall, this is an interesting book, with the mystery unfolding naturally with a balanced amount of suspense. My biggest issue is how 13-year-old Susan Carol (who could pass for 17) is constantly using her good looks to pump information out of middle-aged men – a little bit creepy in my opinion, especially for a book aimed at older children and younger teens.
    • 4/5
      While the situation is a bit unbelievable (two students stumble upon a blackmail scandal at the Final Four of NCAA basketball and are determined to save the star player) the characters themselves are well-drawn. The scenes with the big-name sports reporters are very funny, even if you don't recognize all the names. Anyone who enjoys NCAA basketball and a good mystery will like this book.
    • 4/5
      Realistic issues confront two students who are torn by their goals. Set in the context of an exciting final four basketball tournament, and this story fills a need for the sports-minded student. Gripping for a few students, others will be lost in the sports terms.
    • 4/5
      This book made me feel like I was helping Stevie and Susan Carol help Chip Graber. I like this book because it's a sports story and a mystery.
    • 1/5
      Pretty awful teen mystery a la Nancy Drew--except a boy and girl solve a price-fixing scheme at the Final Four basketball tournament. Totally unbelievable!