What Is The Theme Of Qb1

This is a story of baseball and how it is a team sport. The book relates with the title by showing how this boy named Sandy Comstock that plays on the Grantville Raiders and has a big game coming up. It was against the Newtown Raptors. He wanted to beat them and become one of the best teams. By the time he knew it he ended up on the Newtown Raptors team and he was going to play is old team. It was kind of like a baseball turnaround.

     This book takes place in and around the Chicago area. Gale and Brian are both trying to get the spot as the Chicago Bears starting halfback. They both are rookies.

Multiple chapters in the book discussed in depth about characters Boobie Miles, Mike Winchell, and Ivory Christian. Each of these players had varying backgrounds, and motivations about why they played football. These chapters also discuss the lives of players off of the field, and how the academics at Permian were backseat to their powerhouse football team.

My book “QB 1” by Mike Lupica, Jake Cullen is a freshman trying to do what his dad and brother were great at doing. That is becoming the starting quarterback, and leading his hometown football team the Granger Cowboys to another state championship. Jake has a lot of pressure. From not only his former NFL quarterback dad Troy, and his brother Wyatt who is the starting quarterback for the Texas Longhorns. So can Jake get out of his family's shadows and bring the Granger cowboys to another state championship, or let down his dad, Wyatt, and the whole city of Granger.

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership”- Harvey S. Firestone. In the book Tangerine, seventh-grader Paul Fisher just recently moved to Tangerine County, Florida because of his dad’s new engineering job. He lives with his two parents and his antagonizing brother, Erik Fisher, who is constantly bullying him. As time flies by, Paul transforms into a new character. Paul Fisher’s choices he made during his development truly shaped who he is now because he finally got the courage to tell the truth about Erik and Arthur, assaulted a staff member, and chose to go to Tangerine Middle School.

The main character of the story fantasy league is a twelve year old boy named Charlie gaines. This book was written by mike lupica. this boy is a very caring and loving young boy. He is very intelligent. He is very observant and very quick on picking plays up.He shows and helps many people like the football coach. The coach is the nfl coach for the los angeles bulldogs.

Main Characters: The main characters in the story include Nate Brodie, Pete Mullaney, and Abby McCall. Nate Brodie is a star quarterback for the 8th grade Valley, Massachusetts football team. Nate is the one who will attempt the throw for one million dollars. Pete Mullaney is a good receiver and Nate’s favorite

This novel develops characters that engage in sex, to teachers cheating so their high school football players can continue to participate on the football field. Many people have a major affect on football and society in this novel. One of the major characters was Boobie Myles. Boobie was supposed to be the star athlete on the Permian football team. In the beginning, Boobie was arrogant to his teammates and wasn’t a good team leader. All Boobie cared about was winning and getting to the next level of football to satisfy his athletic needs. When Boobie is injured, he realizes he took football for granted and would do anything to play again. The team needs Boobie and Boobie needs the team. Coach Gaines realizes Boobie was seriously hurt and gives an inspiring pep talk to the team about how the players need to put their heart in the game and how lucky they are to be playing for Odessa.

In addition, this book succeeds in terms of depicting real life situations to young children. As presented in the story, Reed’s father lost his job; thus, causing him to move back in with

the beginning of this novel Jennings Burch is taken to an orphanage with no idea why he is being put there. In the orphanage, he was not aware of the rules, so he was starved the first few days for not following the commands made by a clicker. Jennings eventually made a friend named Mark, who teaches him the rules and keeps him company. Jennings is adopted and brought back in the span of a week. His mom eventually came to pick him up, but his stay at home did not last long because his mom broke her back and he was sent to the orphanage. Jennings is in and out of numerous homes, getting abused and embarrassed along the way, but meets many loving people. In one home, he reunites with Mark, but a few weeks later Mark passes away from a disease and Jennings runs away. A police officer takes him in and his old bus driver Sal, who becomes a father-figure, takes him in and he lives the rest of his childhood with Sal and his mom. Jennings’ survival in this story is due to his immense psychological strength.

The first character , Arlo , is the main character of this book.Arlo could be described as being a savior of his town, athletic, smart in football, dumb making friends,arlo’s dating Sandy. Other people think that Arlo’s overconfident with the stuff he does, he talks a lot of crap about other players, and he was serious about success. “All I ever wanted to do was hit people, is that so bad? Does that make me a bad guy?” Arlo said this before his first Freshman football practice. When Arlo said this readers knew that Arlo was about to make this defense A whole lot better. The second character , Lloyd, is Arlo’s brother. He is described as being drunk a lot, Lloyd was very athletic until he quit, and lastly he was high all the time, lloyd even got caught with bags of weed by a officer. One day of his Senior year of practice Lloyd decides to “retire” from football. After practice he told his Mom “Yes. Mother, of course I’ve been drinking. Wouldn’t you be drinking if you were thrown off the football team ?” Lloyd knows in his mind that he’s not a good brother , Lloyd was also described as “reliable when you need it

In Qb 1 by Mike Lupica, Jake, a high school quarterback, battles for a starting position. In the beginning, Jake wants to become the starting quarterback but he has to overcome some problems along the way. The problems Jake has are they is already two quarterbacks ahead of him so if he wants to be the starter he needs to work extra hard for it. Even though he’s not the starter and doesn’t play much, he wants his dad to come to the games and watch. The only problem is his dads biased in Jakes brothers games instead of going to Jakes.

Nate Brodie, is in 8th grade and he is the quarterback for his school team. In this book,

Backfield Boys is the kind of book that I really wanted to like. The subject matter could not be more timely, as it is about a pair of athletes, two football players, a wide receiver and a quarterback, who are introduced in the opening chapter, and one is black and one is white. The twist is that the wide receiver is white and the quarterback is black. Tom Jefferson and Jason “White Lightning” Roddin make for an interesting pair and compound this subversion of expectations with the fact that Jason is Jewish, and the controversy surrounding Colin Kaepernick, this book by sportswriter John Feinstein clearly feels like a timely piece of entertainment in the Trump era.

There were many characters in this book. The main character in this book was Omri. Omri was a normal young boy who was interested in playing cowboys and Indians, and other games like that. His friend, Patrick, was interested in the same things, but Patrick wasn’t as nice and he was a bit bossy and pushy. He forced Omri into making a live toy for him. Omri had a brother named Adiel. Adiel didn’t like Omri that much and one time in the story he hid Omri’s cupboard because he thought Omri had taken his football shorts. Another character in this book was the headmaster. The headmaster was a very strict person, but he wasn’t unkind.