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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lupica, Mike.
The extra yard / Mike Lupica.
pages cm. — (Home team)
Summary: “Teddy has been training all summer with his new friends Jack and Gus to make the new travel football team in Walton, but when his long-absent dad comes back to town and into his life he is faced with a much bigger challenge”— Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-4814-1000-7 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4814-1002-1 (ebook)
[1. Football—Fiction. 2. Fathers and sons—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.L97914Ex 2016
[Fic]—dc23
2015013657