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Red O’Sullivan is a scrawny quarterback for the Hatley Muckers, and he’s got quite a legacy. His brother, killed in WWII, was the last quarterback to take the hardscrabble high-school football team to victory, and now that the copper mine (the sole industry keeping Hatley afloat) is about to shut down, Muckers football is the only thing the small Arizona town has to look forward to. As residents continue to leave Hatley and their team members dwindle, the Muckers make the most of their meager resources—pushing a school bus instead of tackling dummies and running drills at the bottom of the mining pit—and rally to take on teams both bigger in number and in size. Based on a true story, Wallace’s novel follows the tough-as-nails, desegregated Muckers as they dig their heels into the slag and face impossible odds, all while the threat of racial tensions, anti-Communist sentiments, and the Korean War simmer in the background. Wallace, a former ESPN correspondent, captures a vivid sense of atmosphere and well-wrought characters, all while showcasing balls-to-the-wall football action. Grades 9-12. --Sarah Hunter

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THE BULLETIN, November 2013:"Wallace makes [her characters] live and breathe through careful attention to the quotidian details of local geography and universal motivators—guilt, friendship, spite, encouragement, anger, and talent." Starred Review, School Library Journal, December 2013:"… fans of H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights (Addison-Wesley, 1990) and other football histories will appreciate this inspiring tale.”

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Age Range: 12 and up

Grade Level: 7 - 9

Lexile Measure: 860L (What's this?)

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Hardcover: 288 pages

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers; 1st Edition edition (October 8, 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780375867545

ISBN-13: 978-0375867545

ASIN: 0375867546

Product Dimensions:

5.9 x 1 x 8.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.1 out of 5 stars

35 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#1,074,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

This is an outstanding sports story about an actual, extraordinary town in Arizona. I'd think the cinema folks would be falling all over themselves to get rights to this book.

With a little tweek here and a name-change there, the telling of this story kept me fully engaged and "living" in my parents' high school years in a way I'd never been able to imagine through the many tales I've heard. Thank you Sandra for bringing those days back to life.

I've introduced this to so many students, family, my dad...it's such a great story! If you ever loved an underdog story, you'll love Muckers!

I live close to this town and the history was fascinating to read about this great ghost town and tourist town.

While I knew this was a book written for male teens, I chose it because there were several common themes in it that I could relate to... My high school team was called the Muckers, I grew up in a small mining town, our football field was gravel not grass, and even though I grew up in the 60 - 70's we were so remote that our culture was a decade behind, so I can relate to the 50's quite well. I figured this would be a quick and simple read and had every expectation of enjoying it. Unfortunately, it failed on all accounts. The narration is rough and is filled with detail that has no depth. The characters are simple and unsympathetic, even as the author tries to create a nuanced and complex storyline... In an effort to be fair, just in case my gender was why I couldn't find a connection to these characters, I asked my husband to read it too. He not only share the same commonality that I do on the subjects matter and setting, but he also played championship football games. He too, found it lacking. In fact he ended up leaving it unfinished. When I asked him about it his review was "meh" which reinforces my impression. I doubt modern males, particularly teens and young adults will persevere too far into this book. Too bad. The storyline has promise, it just needs some major refinement to win an audience.

The fictional town of Hatley, AZ substitutes for the real town of Jerome, AZ in this book which centers on the local high school's football team and its attempts to go all the way to the state championship.Set in the early 1950's, Hatley has already seen better times and is positioned for oblivion as the mine is about to close and the high school seems to be following suit. Red, the main character, is at that crisis period in his life. His brother has been killed in the war and Red wants to follow in his footsteps. An attempt to live his life for his brother who left too early? Probably. The focus to go to state is on the face of it unlikely, but miracles can happen.This is a novel of persistence, following dreams, and defying the odds. The team has grit despite a lack of decent equipment or even an adequate playing ground. While this story sounds like a take on Friday Night Lights, it is about dealing with loss set in the context of 1950's America and the prevalent issues of the day such as the Korean War, the economy, and racism.I liked this book. It had heart and a good plot, but it also had history going for it. I liked the retro feel of it as the issues of the time were blended with the story.I thought the writing was good as was the character development. It generally was fast paced and didn't drag too much.This will appeal to sports lovers, but they will also get a surprise history lesson, too.

Muckers took me incredibly by surprise for one reason: I’m reading a book set during World War II, and somehow I still felt like the social climate hasn’t changed that much sixty plus years later.The novel is based on a true story of the Jerome Muckers. The Muckers in this novel are fictional, but they felt entirely real. We follow “Red” O’Sullivan (Anglo Irish), Rabbit (Italian American), and Cruz (Mexican) as they take up their places in the last football season their town of Hatley will ever have. Theirs is a mining town, which has run dry. The people of the town still cling to shreds of hope, and that hope is football. Football becomes this magnanimous thing, greater even than the power of the lonesome church, and the townspeople put their belief in those kids.There are some, like Cruz, who keep believing that everything is going to be okay. That Mr. Ruffner (the owner of pretty much the town) will change his mind about closing down the mine, and that they’ll be able to keep going. There are others, like Red’s father, who are broken from such a hard life, that they resolve to drinking and (barely) basic human functioning. Hatley itself is this living, breathing thing that is holding on just barely, it seems, to see the team become champions. And I loved learning about the town as much as I learned about it’s inhabitants, each of them adding layers to the story and to Red’s life. A part of me wanted so very much for a Disney type of resolution, with one of the kids finding an open vein of ore during football practice. But as much as the town is built around the mine, and the mine plays a role in the life or death of the town, the hope of the town lies in a group of scrawny boys whose field is made out of slag.The training of new and old Muckers is in this paragraph:“The knees of the wobbly freshman are dripping blood onto the slag and I don’t think he’ll make it. I want to tell him to keep going, that if you on’t you’re sunk. But he’ll have to learn for himself. We’re hanging off the side of a mountain exposed to the desert’s blazing sun with the heart of out town ripped open, churned up, and processes into copper. We play football on the discarded part–the gunk that gets delivered back to us from Cottonville…”While the adult workers fight their own struggles, the Hatley young Muckers have their enemies in the form of rival teams with new uniforms, equipment, and a field that isn’t called “Hell’s Corner.” The Cottonville Wolves are the worst, and I actually found myself hating this fictional town that never did anything to me. The more the Muckers keep winning, the more I want them to be okay. I want to pull them out of the story and tell them that history is wrong. That segregation is wrong. That miners shouldn’t have to live off dirt wages. That Rabbit doesn’t have to enlist in the war. That Red’s mother is going to get better. The ugly parts of the novel (and I mean ugly in the sense that history can be a cruel thing to read about) is the discrimination that is underlined in the novel.Red says it best when he’s in the middle of English class and his teacher is putting the fear of Commies into the hearts of his students.“It’s a funny thing about our town. …everyone’s got the spirit of good ol’ Hatley High. They rally on the sidelines of our football games, but if you want to go for a swim, or say, get married, it better be ‘with’ or ‘to’ your own kind. We come together during the day, but we all head home to our places on the hill. If you climb up from Main to Company Ridge–Gringo Ridge, Cruz likes to remind me–you’re right and her run the mine your house overlooks.If you stay on Main and follow it to the city limits…you could be Rabbit’s dad…in the middle of Little Italy. If you walk down the hill in the direction from the pool hall that fits your nationality, chances are you work in the mine.If it’s the Copper star and your legs are draped over a burro…you’re Mexican, maybe Santiago, Cruz’s father, working your way down the switchbacks to the bottom of the Gulch and a little wooden shanty in the Barrio.”Yeah, that’s pretty emotional to read considering Arizona was still in the headlines in 2014 on account of banning Mexican American studies from public school and not being disability friendly. And when they passed a bill that made it okay for businesses to discriminate against gays.So as I’m reading about a town with a football team made up of mostly Mexicans, led by a ginger named Red O’Sullivan, during a time of the Red Scare, I found myself wondering about the kind of progress (or regress) we’re making as a society in 2014. One of the most heartbreaking parts of the story (there are many) is when Red falls for Cruz’s sister, Angie, who has permanent discoloration on her hands because she works at the pool and has to bleach it every time “Mexican hours” are over. Angie who hopes for a little while that they might be together, but realizes she’ll never be able to come to terms with an interracial romance because “they” would always make her feel like she’s doing something wrong. Don’t worry, there is hope.At the end of it all, there is hope, and it comes in the form of young and bloody football players with big dreams. Even as the town deteriorates around them, they have this one thing that no one in the world can take from them.In the Author’s Note, Wallace remarks on how incredible the nature of this story is, but it never made any sort of headlines in it’s day, which is very sad indeed. I’m just glad she was able to tell a version of it that is filled with just as much heart.

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