Red Zone (Reprint)

Description: The Hidden Valley Eagles are on track to make the playoffs. But when a bout of chicken pox threatens to overtake the team, will their playoff dreams disappear?

Brief description: Tiki Barber is a record-holding retired running back for the New York Giants. He married and is the father of four children.

Review Quotes: Tiki and Ronde are eighth graders hoping for a run to the state championships. However, football fever has hit Hidden Valley Junior High School--literally, in the form of chicken pox--and when players start coming down with the pox, Tiki and Ronde fear the worst: If they get sick, what will the team do without its best athletes? Along with the usual sports messages of teamwork, hard work, keeping the faith, dreams and picking yourself up when you don't succeed, the novel adds didacticism and narcissism to the mix. Still, lots of football action, an exuberant use of exclamation points and a plot that runs like a footrace for the end zone will keep credulous young readers flying through the pages.