POP

by Gordon Korman
Lexile: 740
Genre: Realistic Fiction

Marcus was the star of his high school football team, but now he's moved to a new town and is going to have to prove that he deserves a spot on a championship team. He meets Charlie in the park one day as he's practicing and Charlie offers to help. Marcus realizes that Charlie knows football, but other than that is kind of a strange guy...things don't always seem to make sense when Charlie is around. Marcus finds out that Charlie is Troy Popovich's dad; another football player who has had it in for Marcus since day one. Then Marcus learns Charlie's secret. Should he try to help or stay as far away from the Popovich family as he can?