Awards

• Short-listed for Nutmeg Book Award (Teen) 2015

Overview

The championship is so close they can taste it. And for four key players, it's about more than just winning. They're fighting for pride, love, recognition, and stardom. But who will come out on top? Three games will settle the score . . . ""Volponi, a multiple award-winning author, keeps the tension high from the first to last page ...The Final Four is definitely a winner."" -VOYA, starred review March Madness is in full swing, and there are only four teams let in the NCAA basketball championship. The heavily favored Michigan Spartans and the underdog Troy Trojans meet in the first game in the seminfinals, and it's there that the fates of Malcolm, Roko, Crispin, and M.J. intertwine. As the last moments tick down on the game clock, you'll learn how each player went from being a kid who loves to shoot hoops to a powerful force in one of the most important games of the year. Which team will leave the Superdome victorious? In the end it will come down to who has the most skill, the most drive, and the most heart. ""Volponi nails it when it counts in this dynamic story."" -Booklist, starred review ""Volponi adroitly renders authentic and inspired basketball action."" -The New York Times Book Review

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Reviews

Praise for The Final Four by Paul Volponi: Volponi, a multiple award-winning author, keeps the tension high from the first to last page ... The Final Four is definitely a winner. -- VOYA, starred review A triple-overtime game keeps readers on the edge of their seats, but nerve-wracking as the action on the floor may be, the baggage that the players bring to the game is equally fraught. -- BCCB, starred review With exciting game action ... this gritty, realistic, and riveting novel deserves the wide audience it will no doubt attract. -- School Library Journal, starred review Volponi nails it when it counts in this dynamic story. -- Booklist, starred review Volponi's latest combines in-the-moment action, basketball history and the points of view of four college ballplayers with very different lives ... No story or character is simple. -- Kirkus Reviews

Praise for The Final Four by Paul Volponi: -Volponi, a multiple award-winning author, keeps the tension high from the first to last page ... The Final Four is definitely a winner.- --VOYA, starred review -A triple-overtime game keeps readers on the edge of their seats, but nerve-wracking as the action on the floor may be, the baggage that the players bring to the game is equally fraught.- --BCCB, starred review -With exciting game action ... this gritty, realistic, and riveting novel deserves the wide audience it will no doubt attract.- --School Library Journal, starred review -Volponi nails it when it counts in this dynamic story.- --Booklist, starred review -Volponi's latest combines in-the-moment action, basketball history and the points of view of four college ballplayers with very different lives ... No story or character is simple.- --Kirkus Reviews

Volponi's latest combines in-the-moment action, basketball history and the points of view of four college ballplayers with very different lives ... No story or character is simple. --Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 2012

Author Information

Paul Volponi is a writer, journalist, and teacher living in New York City. From 1992 to 1998, he taught incarcerated teens on Rikers Island to read and write. This experience formed the basis of Black and White and Rikers High. From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Volponi taught teens in a drug-treatment program. The experience inspired him to write Rooftop. Mr. Volponi is also the author of Rucker Park Setup, Hurricane Song, and Response. An ardent street ball player, Mr. Volponi draws upon his more than four decades of New York City court-sense to write The Final Four.

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