Foul (Night Fall) - Softcover

Hoblin, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761378138 ISBN 13: 9780761378136

Publisher: Darby Creek Pub, 2011

Synopsis

Rhino is one of Bridgewater's best basketball players—except when it comes to making free throws. It's not a big deal, until he begins receiving strange threats. If Rhino can't make his shots at the free throw line, someone will start hurting the people around him. Everyone's a suspect: a college recruiter, Rhino's jealous best friend, and the father Rhino never knew—who recently escaped from prison.

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Review

"In what might be the strongest entry yet in the Night Fall collection--short horror novels all set in the fictional town of Bridgewater--16-year-old Rhino is a seven-foot-tall basketball star with limitless potential. Except for one problem: he can't hit free throws. This deficiency could muck up his college chances, but that becomes the least of his worries when he finds in his locker some written free-throw advice--attached to a severed finger. Soon the threat is verbalized: 'If you don't start making your free throws, people are going to get hurt.' Suspects are everywhere, from his jealous teammate to his adopted parents to a college recruiter to his real father, a murderer who has just escaped from prison. With a strong grasp of sports action, Hoblin not only keep things speedy enough for reluctant readers but unbearably tense, too--rarely have potential game-winning free throws had such high stakes attached to them (or detached as the case may be)." --Booklist

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Edition details

• Publisher: Darby Creek Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761378138
• ISBN 13: 9780761378136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114