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Something for Joey

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By Richard E. Peck
Publisher Random House Children's Books - (Laurel Leaf)
Something for Joey
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Together, they won college footballs highest award. This is a true, memorable, compassionate story of courage and love between two brothers. In 1973, while John Cappelletti was winning the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding college football player in America, his younger brother Joey was suffering from leukemia. But John, now a running back for the Los Angeles Rams, had a very special medicine for Joey. It was called touchdowns. And John scored them in bunches because they were Something for Joey. The story of the Cappelletti family is a story of courage you will never forget.

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53077 words53,077 words
192 pages192 pages
Lexile 860LLexile 860L
Published 1983Published 1983

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9780553271997

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