Book Report On Steal The Game By Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Lead-In/Hook: Do like books about basketball and crimes and is by basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar who introduced the sky hook to the NBA and he won 6 NBA championships and a great basketball player. Book title, author, & genre: Steal the game is a by Kareem Abdul Jabbar is a realistic fiction book. Protagonist: The protagonist Chris is a middle schooler with a brother who dropped out of Stanford Law School. Chris always looked up to his brother. Chris plays basketball for his school. His parents are lawyers and really want him to be a lawyer to but he wants to be a thief, he likes to write comic books but his parents don't know about it. He is a quiet person he does not talk a lot during class or basketball practice because he does not want to say something he did not mean to.
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Point of View: This book is written in 1st person because Chris is telling the reader what he is thinking like for example in part of the book he talks about how he loves to write about comic books but he does not show them to his parents it is just between him and his brother Jax he say he did not tell his parents because they would either try to get him out of comic or put him in a drawing class.
Antagonist & Conflict: The Antagonist is Chris’s brother Jax because he drops out of stanford law school and causes all this commotion from his mom and dad because they did a lot to help him get there and he wanted to be a lawyer after he watched a movie about injustice. Chris knows that there is something wrong with him because he would never do that and farther in the book Jax is gambling with other people and loses. Chris knows that the Jax before college would not do that. Author’s Purpose: The purpose was to make a book of mysteries basketball and justice making all together in one
book. Moral & Theme: The moral is even if you make a mistake it is not the end of the world and you can do something else because Chris's brother decides to not be a lawyer but a police and is faking going to Stanford but, he is training to be a police. Setting: The book does not tell you where but I think somewhere in California because Jax was accepted to Stanford and it takes places in Orangetree Middle School, basketball courts and different place where they live. Figurative Language: “Roger’s extra heft slowed him down to the point where looked like he was running through ankle deep mud.” is an example of a simile and it means he was so tired of running he was slow and struggling to get out. Dislikes: This book was a little confusing to me in the beginning like “what is going on” because it starts out with a cop coming to his class and not till end of the book to tell you what the cop wanted. And the book kept going back and forward like “four days earlier. Book Comparison: I would compare this to the series of the Brixton Brothers by Mac Barnett because it’s has mysteries and in the beginning they are two regular kids but as the book goes on twists happen the main characters are solving them and while they do they go through multiple obstacles. Book Review: Chris Richards has always looked up to Jax, his older brother and his parents' 'golden child.' Lately, though, Jax has been full of surprises. First he dropped out of law school; then he started hanging out with some shifty-looking friends. One day Jax asks Chris to recruit his best middle school teammates for a pick-up basketball game in the park…
I agree with this review and it does not give away a lot and it makes you want to know what is next. Closing: So if you want to see what is next and read more twists go to your local library and pick-up a copy of Stealing the Game and you can even pick-up the 1st book Sasquatch In The Paint.
Point of View: This book is written in 1st person because Chris is telling the reader what he is thinking like for example in part of the book he talks about how he loves to write about comic books but he does not show them to his parents it is just between him and his brother Jax he say he did not tell his parents because they would either try to get him out of comic or put him in a drawing class.
Antagonist & Conflict: The Antagonist is Chris’s brother Jax because he drops out of stanford law school and causes all this commotion from his mom and dad because they did a lot to help him get there and he wanted to be a lawyer after he watched a movie about injustice. Chris knows that there is something wrong with him because he would never do that and farther in the book Jax is gambling with other people and loses. Chris knows that the Jax before college would not do that. Author’s Purpose: The purpose was to make a book of mysteries basketball and justice making all together in one
book. Moral & Theme: The moral is even if you make a mistake it is not the end of the world and you can do something else because Chris's brother decides to not be a lawyer but a police and is faking going to Stanford but, he is training to be a police. Setting: The book does not tell you where but I think somewhere in California because Jax was accepted to Stanford and it takes places in Orangetree Middle School, basketball courts and different place where they live. Figurative Language: “Roger’s extra heft slowed him down to the point where looked like he was running through ankle deep mud.” is an example of a simile and it means he was so tired of running he was slow and struggling to get out. Dislikes: This book was a little confusing to me in the beginning like “what is going on” because it starts out with a cop coming to his class and not till end of the book to tell you what the cop wanted. And the book kept going back and forward like “four days earlier. Book Comparison: I would compare this to the series of the Brixton Brothers by Mac Barnett because it’s has mysteries and in the beginning they are two regular kids but as the book goes on twists happen the main characters are solving them and while they do they go through multiple obstacles. Book Review: Chris Richards has always looked up to Jax, his older brother and his parents' 'golden child.' Lately, though, Jax has been full of surprises. First he dropped out of law school; then he started hanging out with some shifty-looking friends. One day Jax asks Chris to recruit his best middle school teammates for a pick-up basketball game in the park…
I agree with this review and it does not give away a lot and it makes you want to know what is next. Closing: So if you want to see what is next and read more twists go to your local library and pick-up a copy of Stealing the Game and you can even pick-up the 1st book Sasquatch In The Paint.