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Mitch True has wanted to be a reporter ever since his dad took him to see All the President\u2019s Men<\/em> when he was little [in a theater that shows old movies, of course].\u00a0 He has been on the school paper, The Lincoln Light<\/em>, since freshman year.\u00a0 He assumed he would become the editor during senior year because his only competition, Alyssa Hanson, was not a very talented writer.\u00a0 Alyssa got the editor position based on a popular vote and then moved Mitch from lead reporter to sports.\u00a0 Although he was initially unhappy, Mitch quickly realized that Alyssa made a great editor and that the sports writer position was likely to give him a lot more exposure before graduation.\u00a0 But this story is not just about how some kid learned to adapt when his life plan didn\u2019t pan out.\u00a0 It\u2019s a whole lot juicier than that!<\/p>\n When Mitch and the sports photographer, Kimi Yon, went to interview the quarterback, they noticed something fishy about a new player.\u00a0 He was throwing amazing passes before practice started but pretended to be only mediocre when people started paying attention to him.\u00a0 He also looked older than the rest of the guys on the team.\u00a0 Everyone knew Coach McNulty was unhappy coaching high school football and wantedto get hired on at a college . . .\u00a0so, could he be cheating by bringing in a guy who was ineligible to play?\u00a0 Mitch and Kimi decided to dig up the truth and to get this story out.\u00a0 But there\u2019s just one problem \u2014 they\u2019re not even close to guessing this guy\u2019s secret and have no idea how much danger they could be in if they dig too deep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mitch True has wanted to be a reporter ever since his dad took him to see All the President\u2019s Men when he was little [in a theater that shows old movies, of course].\u00a0 He has been on the school paper, The Lincoln Light, since freshman year.\u00a0 He assumed he would become the editor during senior … Continue reading Payback Time by Carl Deuker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}