Take Your Best Shot Sparknotes

Take Your Best Shot by John Coy is about a middle school boy by name Jackson and his three friends Gig, Isaac, and Diego and it’s the start of the basketball season. But with so much drama off the court, how can they focus on their performance on the court? The target audience for this book readers who are grades 3-6 and ages 8-12 who are interested in basketball and are working through similar issues that are present in the book such as grades, parent divorce, and parents in the military. The genre of this book is Contemporary Realistic Fiction. And it bears fruit because the realistic aspect of the book is important and is relevant to the reader, what the characters in the book experience reflect the experiences someone might have in real life. Many of its themes in the book are very important in real life such as the importance of friendship and the importance of family. I recommend this book for this age group because of the characters friendship and its relatable issues.
Each character is going through some problem in their personal lives. But they help each other because they are a constant support to each other, they are a group of friends who share similar interest, spend time together during and after school and play the same sport on the same team. And that is an ideology that the author is expressing consciously in the book, that friendship is an important part of a healthy development of a child and that children need to form bonds with peers in their age group. In the book, their friendship is the part of their life that is stable and reliable. For example, when Gig doesn’t show up for school one day Jackson becomes worried, asks his mom to take him to Gig’s