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Playing With the Boys (Pretty Tough #2)
by
Liz Tigelaar (Goodreads Author)
New girl Lucy is desperate for friends. She tries out for Beachwood High soccer, but despite her amazingly accurate kick, fails to make the team. When the Coach points out that varsity football is looking for a new kicker, Lucy is skeptical. Football? Isn't that a boys' game? But on the gridiron Lucy discovers that she feels strong; in control for the first time since her...more
Paperback, 279 pages
Published
April 10th 2008
by Razorbill
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Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com
Lucy's father forced her to move to Malibu right after her freshman year of high school. She's heartbroken to leave her best friend and the house where everything reminds of her mother.
The first week has been rough, but then she starts soccer tryouts. Lucy loves soccer and being a part of the team. She's devastated when her name is not on the list. However, the coach pulls her aside and tells her that the football team needs a quick replacement ki...more
Lucy's father forced her to move to Malibu right after her freshman year of high school. She's heartbroken to leave her best friend and the house where everything reminds of her mother.
The first week has been rough, but then she starts soccer tryouts. Lucy loves soccer and being a part of the team. She's devastated when her name is not on the list. However, the coach pulls her aside and tells her that the football team needs a quick replacement ki...more
Lucy, still recovering from the death of her mother, moves from Ohio to California with her father. Desperate to fit in and make friends, she tries out for the soccer team, but when she doesn't make it, the coach suggests that she try out for the football team as placekicker. She beats out everyone, including her new friend Benji, and is cautiously excited about it. She thinks the quarterback, Ryan, is cute, and is glad to be asked to parties by the cheerleaders. The down sides include having to...more
I enjoyed reading this book a lot. I love to play sports, and this was all about them! It's about a girl named Lucy Malone who has to move across the country to California. Lucy obviously is devastated about this. She has to leave her high school, and even worse, her very best friend in the whole world, Annie.
Lucy starts attending Beachwood High School. She soon finds out her English teacher is the head coach for the girls soccer team. Try outs are in a couple weeks and Coach Martie tells her t...more
Lucy starts attending Beachwood High School. She soon finds out her English teacher is the head coach for the girls soccer team. Try outs are in a couple weeks and Coach Martie tells her t...more
The book starts out with Lucy trying out for the girl's soccer team. Even with her amazing skill she doesn't make the team. Coach Martie talks to her about trying out for the boy's football team. Their placekicker is out for the season and tryouts are tomorrow. Lucy goes for it and makes the team. Of course none of the guys are happy about this except for Benji, one of Lucy's friends. He teachers her all about football and really helps her improve her kick. Since she's new, he's one of the few f...more
Rating C
Review Lucy is an instantly-likable narrator. Her problems are complex and you understand why and you care pretty much straight-away. The drama surrounding the boys/crushes/let's just be friends situations were much more compelling in this second book. The only hang-up for me was that the tension about Lucy's dad's prohibition of her being on the football team was too melodramatic. Everything else was pretty good (not high-brow literature, sure, but decent reading), but this just rang as...more
Review Lucy is an instantly-likable narrator. Her problems are complex and you understand why and you care pretty much straight-away. The drama surrounding the boys/crushes/let's just be friends situations were much more compelling in this second book. The only hang-up for me was that the tension about Lucy's dad's prohibition of her being on the football team was too melodramatic. Everything else was pretty good (not high-brow literature, sure, but decent reading), but this just rang as...more
This read is great for a teenager trying to find her place in this world. My daughter read this book and insisted that I read it knowing how much I love reading. This sort of story usually isn't my cup of tea but have to say that it was a great coming of ages book.
Lucy's story of moving, trying to find her place in a new school and dealing with her own loss at home really brought me in the story and didn't let go. I loved how the author didn't do the norm and placed a character like Benji in Luc...more
Lucy's story of moving, trying to find her place in a new school and dealing with her own loss at home really brought me in the story and didn't let go. I loved how the author didn't do the norm and placed a character like Benji in Luc...more
This book is about a girl named Lucy who has to move and hates it. When she arrives, she tries out for the soccer team and doesn't make it. Everything is bringing her down, and right when she believes nothing can get any worse, the soccer coach proposes something. She wants Lucy to become the new placekicker for the school football team. The boy's football team. This story tells of the stuggles to fit in and become accepted, and it sheds light on the sexist discrimination that is still apparent...more
This is a great book about female power and toughing it out- even when your own sex is the major factor holding you back. Lucy Malone, the heroine, doesn’t make the soccer team at her high school. So why not try out for the football team? Swimming upstream against all odds, Lucy makes the team. But will her teammates, coach and clingy-overprotective father hold her back? And is she really as tough as the boys are?
Find out in this awesome book!
Personally, this book was very inspiring. I do a mar...more
Find out in this awesome book!
Personally, this book was very inspiring. I do a mar...more
When I bought this book I didn't realize it was the 2nd in a series, so I haven't read the first book. That said, I'm not sure if the first book contributes at all to the second, but I felt this book was pretty well self contained.
I'm not really a sporty person, so I'm sure why I picked this book up, but overall I thought it was a good read. I loved that Lucy had no clue what anything football was, because I sure as heck don't know anything about football, and I really did need those explanation...more
I'm not really a sporty person, so I'm sure why I picked this book up, but overall I thought it was a good read. I loved that Lucy had no clue what anything football was, because I sure as heck don't know anything about football, and I really did need those explanation...more
Lucy has just moved into a new town in Cali but doesnt know anyone. Luckily she meets Charlie (girl) Brown. they both end up going to the same highschool. But when Lucy tries out for the school soccer team, she doesnt make it but ends up getting a recommendation for the school FOOTBALL team since the soccer team's coach, Martie thinks that she should use her really accurate kick for it. Lucy decides to give it a shot since her friends tell her that the cutest guys in their school are on the team...more
Lucy Malone is the new girl at Beachwood High. She wants to play soccer, but when she gets cut from the team, she's devastated. That was her one hope to make friends. Then the soccer coach suggests that she try out for the football team, since their placekicker was injured, and her kick is great. But really? A girl on the football team? But she tries it. And she makes the team. But she has to go through a ton of crap to get accepted as part of the team. Mostly about her fight to be accepted, the...more
I started this one for book club, got a little over halfway through, and couldn't bring myself to finish it. It is really not my genre, and I didn't like how she lived a lie, even to her dad, who was only trying to help her. There was a lot of drinking, one girl drank so much she threw up. I really wouldn't waste my time on this book, I think there are a lot of better books out there that talk about soccer, and football. The concept is okay, about determination, and not giving up, but again, the...more
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I loved this book with a passion! this one ranks up in the top ten of my books! This book is filled with drama romance and mystery. the things i really liked about it was that it was not a book that you could guess what they were going to say on the next page. they kind of threw you off in places that were un-expected.
In this book they was nothing that i could say negative about it. except that you knew in the back of your head that a girl would never try to do this! ;)
If you like drama filled a...more
In this book they was nothing that i could say negative about it. except that you knew in the back of your head that a girl would never try to do this! ;)
If you like drama filled a...more
4.5 stars
Really good story. One of the best chick literature I've read recently, but in a way this book could appeal to those interested in sports, so it doesn't have to be confined to just one genere. I don't actually know that much about football, even though I've been to every football game at my high school for the last four years because of colorguard, but while reading this I actually learned a little more about football. I like how the author will talk about what is happening during the f...more
Really good story. One of the best chick literature I've read recently, but in a way this book could appeal to those interested in sports, so it doesn't have to be confined to just one genere. I don't actually know that much about football, even though I've been to every football game at my high school for the last four years because of colorguard, but while reading this I actually learned a little more about football. I like how the author will talk about what is happening during the f...more
Second book in this series, though you don't have to read them in sequence. Girl's father moves them out to Malibu after her mom's death. She hopes to join the soccer team to help make friends, but after getting cut decides to try out for place kicker on the boy's football team. She faces persecution by her teammates, opposition from her dad, and loss of her friends because of her decision at a party. Everything works out in the end as she learns to stand for herself.
Good moral, a little commer...more
Good moral, a little commer...more
nice feel good book about a girl playing in a boys football team and excelling.
i was a bit skeptical while reading the first few chapters. i thought she was a bit shallow and trying hard to fit in. she wanted to get into the soccer team so badly so she can have a good set of friends. however, she wasn't good enough so she didn't make the team. then teacher suggested she tryout for the football team. say what?? if she's not good enough to get into the female squad, how can she get into the male...more
i was a bit skeptical while reading the first few chapters. i thought she was a bit shallow and trying hard to fit in. she wanted to get into the soccer team so badly so she can have a good set of friends. however, she wasn't good enough so she didn't make the team. then teacher suggested she tryout for the football team. say what?? if she's not good enough to get into the female squad, how can she get into the male...more
Playing With The Boys is a cute young adult novel about a girl who moves to California, and has to start a new school, and her new life. She tries out for the soccer team but doesn't make it, so the soccer coach suggests Lucy try out for the football team as a kicker, because their kicker recently got injured. Lucy agrees to try out and things seem to be looking great, she has friends from soccer, and now she is going to play football. But Lucy isn't always so Lucky... Many things start to go wr...more
My Thoughts: In Playing With The Boys, we are introduced to Lucy. Lucy lives with her father and is forced to move to Los Angeles. She lost her mother and her father wants to get away from all the memories so he drags Lucy across the country.
Lucy has to make new friends, go to a new school, and basically learn how to be a California girl, which is harder than you would think.
On her first day of school she meets a boy named Benji. She and Benji become good friends. Then there is another boy who s...more
Lucy has to make new friends, go to a new school, and basically learn how to be a California girl, which is harder than you would think.
On her first day of school she meets a boy named Benji. She and Benji become good friends. Then there is another boy who s...more
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Okay, let's just say that this book speaks girl power. It proves that women can do anything that men can do and probably do it even better. Well scratch that.We CAN do it better!
Lucy Malone, the main character, is forced to move to Malibu to get a fresh start. Then she tries out for the soccer team at school, doesn't make, goes for the football team, and gets in. Long story short, this story co...more
Review Copyright © of Keeping Up With Roxy's Books
Okay, let's just say that this book speaks girl power. It proves that women can do anything that men can do and probably do it even better. Well scratch that.We CAN do it better!
Lucy Malone, the main character, is forced to move to Malibu to get a fresh start. Then she tries out for the soccer team at school, doesn't make, goes for the football team, and gets in. Long story short, this story co...more
I hate to say it but the Pretty Tough series went downhill with Playing With The Boys. Seeing as I really liked the first one, I expected to like this one too. And I did, somewhat. It just wasn't nearly as good as I had hoped.
Lucy Malone is not having a good year. First, her dad moved her across the country. Then, she didn't make the soccer team. There goes her only chance for making friends. When the soccer coach suggests Lucy try out for the boys football team Lucy doesn't take her seriously....more
Lucy Malone is not having a good year. First, her dad moved her across the country. Then, she didn't make the soccer team. There goes her only chance for making friends. When the soccer coach suggests Lucy try out for the boys football team Lucy doesn't take her seriously....more
"Playing With the Boys," is another book I have read by Liz Tigelaar. I decided to read this book after finishing "Pretty Tough" because although it is not a sequel, some of the characters and the setting is the same. The main difference is that this story is based on the life of a girl named Lucy Malone who is a newcomer to Beachwood High School from Ohio. She moved to California with her dad (her Mom passed away years earlier) and at first, struggled to fit in and make any friends. Before scho...more
There is a reason this book went directly to my finished list without passing through "to read" or "currently reading," and that reason is that I read the entire thing in two days. I had to go the Big Island this weekend and I was flying on Hawaiian, which has to go down in history as the most oft-delayed airline ever. Two delayed flights equals a lot of time sitting around in airports with nothing better to do than read YA fiction, so I went through this one pretty quickly.
The novel begins whe...more
The novel begins whe...more
Lucy Malone has just moved to Malibu, California, and even though she’s got a totally awesome room in an amazing new house, things aren’t going well. All her friends are back home in Toledo, Ohio, and it doesn’t seem like she’s going to be making any new friends soon. But opportunity soon presents itself in the form of soccer tryouts. Lucy was on the varsity soccer team at her old school, so being on the team in Malibu would be a chance to show off something she’s good at. But she’s not good eno...more
I will be the first to tell you that I am definitely not a big sports person: I can watch sports every now and again, but as for playing... psh, no way. I'm very athletically challenged. And most sports I can understand... but football? It's the one sport that I pretty much don't get at all. However, after reading Playing With the Boys, I feel like I understand it a lot better than before. While reading the book, I actually understood the game of football.
That being said, Playing With the Boys w...more
That being said, Playing With the Boys w...more
This continues with the same group of girls in high school but with the focus on a different character. The main character becomes the kicker on the boys football team without telling her parents about it. There is lots of teen drama and sports action to keep the story moving. There is also alcohol use at a party. Situations are well resolved with good lessons learned. Eighth grade+.
This was also an amazing book, just like Pretty Tough. It's not a sequel, they are different books with different plots but are at the same school with same characters with some new ones added. I really like the main girl because she was tough, determined, and stay with her goal even when it became really tough! She almost quit but wanted to prove herself. And I always love happy endings!
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I've always liked books about sport and girl with romance throw into it so I've read quite a lot of them. Usually I'm more focused with the romance but this one I didn't really care for the romance at all. I liked more about how Lucy became part of the guys football team.
I liked how this book relates to highschool and how mean everyone is. and i really liked the part about how she met her "true love" but i didnt like now he had "friends" at the begining of the book and then they leave her basicly.
Very cute and fun book and definitely makes me long for football season. Lucy is one strong female character and though she's not perfect she works hard to accomplish her goals and doesn't let people stand in her way.
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Liz Tigelaar writes both television dramas and young adult novels. Her TV credits include Dawson's Creek, American Dreams, What About Brian and Brothers & Sisters. She's the creator of the popular TV series "Life Unexpected" and writes for such ABC shows as Revenge and Nashville. She's a graduate of Ithaca College, originally from Guilford, Connecticut and currently living in Los Angeles, Cali...more
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