Crash

Jerry Spinelli. Crash
Paperback: 162pp. Dell Laurel Leaf/Random House 1996

Hike! Crash Coogan is a child football prodigy. Crash's best friend, Mike, periodically torments a boy named Penn Webb who is an outcast. Crash, in the end, has to decide which side he has to be on: Crash's or Penn's.

"Crash is the story of Crash, an aggressive, very athletic materialistic 12 year-old and Penn (also 12) who is a Quaker, slight build, runner, cheer leader, from a vegetarian family who live in a garage house, have no TV or commercial toys." -- Ken Morgan

Ages 10 - 14

Some yellowing of pages. Originally 5.50, now only 3.00