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288 pages, Hardcover
First published September 27, 2013
It's a funny thing about our town.
We're used to getting cut up. And the one thing we know how to do is fight. And if I don't fight on that field this afternoon and win, we'll be forgotten. The memory of Hatley gone for good, too, with Coach and Maw and Bobby along with it. And that's not how it's going to be.
Melvin smiles and runs for the field.
"Wait!" Cruz takes the nose guard off his helmet. He straps it onto Melvin's.
"Am I gonna die?" Melvin asks.
"We're all gonna die someday," Cruz says, "but not before we win."