Paradise Found: A Football Team's Rise from the Ashes
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Create Date:2021-11-02 06:19:11
Update Date:2025-09-07
Status:finish
Author:Bill Plaschke
ISBN:B08QJFZ3Z6
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Reviews
Kathleen Gray,
Can football heal and unite a town destroyed by fire? Rick Prinz, coach of the Paradise High Bobcats, thought so and set out to pull his teenage players together against the odds。 This isn't Friday Night Lights (except for the high school football thing)- it's the story of young men, their families, their coaches and their town who use football as a diversion from the destruction around them。 It isn't pretty but it's something。 Thanks to Edelweiss for the ARC。 Plaschke, a journalist, keeps this Can football heal and unite a town destroyed by fire? Rick Prinz, coach of the Paradise High Bobcats, thought so and set out to pull his teenage players together against the odds。 This isn't Friday Night Lights (except for the high school football thing)- it's the story of young men, their families, their coaches and their town who use football as a diversion from the destruction around them。 It isn't pretty but it's something。 Thanks to Edelweiss for the ARC。 Plaschke, a journalist, keeps this from sinking into sentimentality but readers will definitely find themselves rooting both for individuals and the whole。 。。。more
Olive Fellows (abookolive),
Review forthcoming in the Christian Science Monitor。