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Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl (Final Four Mysteries #3)
THE SUPER BOWL. America's biggest sports spectacle. More than 95 million fans will be watching, but Steve Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson know that what they'll be watching is a lie. They know that the entire offensive line of the California Dreams have failed their doping tests and that the Dreams' owner is trying to cover up the test results. These two teens are sitting...more
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Published
November 13th 2007
by Knopf Books for Young Readers
(first published January 1st 2007)
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The book that I have just currently finished reading is Cover-Up by John Feinstein. This book is about two young sport writers. They are Susan Carol and Steve Thomas. They have been working as sports reporters for a sports show until Steve is replaced. But then stave gets a job as a newspaper editor. While they are at the Super Bowl they find out a secret that is huge scandal and could ruin the Los Angeles Dreams chances of winning the Super Bowl. This scandal is that the entire offensive line...more
The book Cover up was overall an okay book. If you had to rate it on its uniqueness then its an A because it is not a common topic books usually write about. On the other side this book at times got very stagnant in its plot and even confused me. The story was about a young boy a teenager who was able to become a famous broadcaster for sports. The boy was not alone in broad casting he was with a very gorgeous girl the same age that he liked. The story takes place in the boys home town where he w...more
In this sports mystery a pair of two teenagers are invited to go to one of the most beloved events in sports, the super bowl. The girl Susan Carol Anderson goes to a party and encounters a drunk man who is the team doctor of the Dreams a team in the super bowl. He tells susan that the Dreams' offensive line has taken HGH, a performance enhancing drug. She tells her friend Stevie Thomas and they investigate. Is the man telling the truth and will the teens have a huge case on their hands. Find out...more
The last 40 or 50 pages was quite engaging, but the first 200+ were quite a slog!
This series of teen mysteries by John Feinstein was recommended for sports-mad teens. I got them for my 6th grade son, but then his 3rd grade brother wanted me to read one aloud at bedtime. He eventually got bored with it and had me stop (so I finished it on my own time).
The writing style is really not very good - perhaps it's more journalistic than novelistic? Feinstein is known for his sports journalism. Whatever...more
This series of teen mysteries by John Feinstein was recommended for sports-mad teens. I got them for my 6th grade son, but then his 3rd grade brother wanted me to read one aloud at bedtime. He eventually got bored with it and had me stop (so I finished it on my own time).
The writing style is really not very good - perhaps it's more journalistic than novelistic? Feinstein is known for his sports journalism. Whatever...more
Mar 01, 2011
Mary Fran Torpey
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
middle-school
okay--in the beginning of the book i got stuck on the almost-preposterous premise (teenaged journalists turned sports commentators on television, but hey, anderson cooper and lisa ling got started on channel one, right?). i figured i'd let it go since i haven't read the other two books in the series, which (presumably) explain how stevie and susan carol get to this point in their "careers" (hard not to use scare quotes when you're writing about fictional 14 year olds)--did i mention a great deal...more
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“Were bringing in a new co-host” (pg.10). This quote is at the beginning of the book “Cover Up” by John Feinstein. It is when things go wrong for Stevie, the main character. This book is about a boy named Stevie and a co-host on a TV show named Susan Carol who are both fourteen years old. They have been working together and are soon going to go to the super bowl for interviews. But only a couples days before they left for Indianapolis, where the super bowl is being held, Stevie finds himself bei...more
This book is great! I was at the book fair at school and i saw this book. Since i like reading sports books, i decided to give it a try. This book has two main characters who are Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol, and they are sports reporters. The fascinating part is that they are only 14! The unfortunate part is that they fire Stevie to bring in a new more popular person, who knows nothing about sports. Stevie is really angry about this because the super Bowl was coming up and he was cleared to go...more
14-year-olds Steve Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are back, and going to the Super Bowl as hosts of KidSports on the USTV network. That is, until the network replaces Steve with the lead singer from a hot boy band... but Steve goes to the Super Bowl anyway with his newspaper contacts and ends up also working for CBS. Susan Carol detests her new costar at first, and when she and Steve discover a doping scandal involving the California Dreams entire offensive line that could influence the outcome...more
Cover Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl
Imagine watching your favorite pitcher on steroids, or even the whole pitching rotation on the stuff. What would you think if you were the only kid who knew and everyone thinks you are crazy and a liar? Well, Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are in the same situation, know they will be watching a complete lie on Super Bowl Sunday. They know that the entire offensive line of the California Dreams all tested positive for human growth hormone, a new way of...more
Imagine watching your favorite pitcher on steroids, or even the whole pitching rotation on the stuff. What would you think if you were the only kid who knew and everyone thinks you are crazy and a liar? Well, Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson are in the same situation, know they will be watching a complete lie on Super Bowl Sunday. They know that the entire offensive line of the California Dreams all tested positive for human growth hormone, a new way of...more
Cover Up, by John Feinstein, is a fictional story. It is a mystery about a special case at the Super Bowl. It takes place in contemporary times, and in Indianapolis, which is the host of the Super Bowl. The main characters in this story are Stevie Thomas, and Susan Carol. They are two fourteen year-old teenagers, who host their own cable sports show. The plot of this story is that Stevie and Susan find out that the California Dreams’ front line, one of the teams in the Super Bowl, has tested pos...more
This is actually the third in a series, but it also stands alone. I didn't really think I wanted to read this book, but it was a page turner. I couldn't wait to see how it resolved itself. I'm a huge football fan, so I'm sure that helped!.
Stevie and Susan Carol are two 14 year-olds who want to be reporters. In a previous book they were asked to be kid reporters on a cable TV show that has been very successful. They're invited to report at the Super Bowl, but at the last minute, Stevie gets fired...more
Stevie and Susan Carol are two 14 year-olds who want to be reporters. In a previous book they were asked to be kid reporters on a cable TV show that has been very successful. They're invited to report at the Super Bowl, but at the last minute, Stevie gets fired...more
Trevor 4/21/10
Cover-up by John Feinstein
This book is about two young reporters, Stevie and Susan Carol. They go to the Super Bowl to report but end up in the middle of a drug testing scandal. One night, Susan Carol went to an N.F.L. party and a drunk doctor for one of the teams, The Dreams, comes up to her trying to impress her. He accidentally tells her that some of the players on his team are using steroids. Stevie and Susan Carol try to tell everyone that the players used steroids so they wo...more
Cover-up by John Feinstein
This book is about two young reporters, Stevie and Susan Carol. They go to the Super Bowl to report but end up in the middle of a drug testing scandal. One night, Susan Carol went to an N.F.L. party and a drunk doctor for one of the teams, The Dreams, comes up to her trying to impress her. He accidentally tells her that some of the players on his team are using steroids. Stevie and Susan Carol try to tell everyone that the players used steroids so they wo...more
Cover-Up
By John Feinstein
Review by Will Sears
Two things that I have always wanted to do are in this book. These two things are solving a mystery and going to the Super Bowl. In Cover-Up, John Feinstein made me feel like I was a part of both these. I felt like I was alongside Stevie and Susan Carol the entire time that I was reading John Feinstein’s action packed sports-mystery.
This was one of the best books that I have ever read. I can relate to it in countless ways and it is well written and su...more
By John Feinstein
Review by Will Sears
Two things that I have always wanted to do are in this book. These two things are solving a mystery and going to the Super Bowl. In Cover-Up, John Feinstein made me feel like I was a part of both these. I felt like I was alongside Stevie and Susan Carol the entire time that I was reading John Feinstein’s action packed sports-mystery.
This was one of the best books that I have ever read. I can relate to it in countless ways and it is well written and su...more
Have you ever thought about going to the Super Bowl? If so, then this is the book to read! If you are a sports fanatic, you most definitely should read this book. If you are not a fan of sports I do not recommend this to you. It was a good book once it got going. However it took way too long to get to the climax. If you are an impatient reader I do not recommend this book to you. Another problem with the book was it was labeled as a mystery but there was no mystery. It was no secret who was cove...more
The Cover Up was one of the most mind appetizing book I have ever read. It will get your mind to want to keep reading, no matter what. I always wished that there was a sequel, or that the book was just longer so that I could read it more. The book is a thriller, and partly romance book.
This book, The Cover Up, is about two boys named Alden and Brad who were drunk one night, and drove home. Alden was behind the wheel and hit someone on a road. Through out the whole book, Alden tried to convince...more
This book, The Cover Up, is about two boys named Alden and Brad who were drunk one night, and drove home. Alden was behind the wheel and hit someone on a road. Through out the whole book, Alden tried to convince...more
This is the third book by Feinstein, although they do not need to be read in order. I didn't read the first two and was able to follow this one. Teens Stevie and Susan Carol are budding journalists who have uncovered big stories in basketball and tennis. In this book they are covering the Super Bowl and find out that some of the players have tested positive for HGH and it has been covered up. It is a mystery and it will appeal to sports fans. The parts about football made my eyes glaze over and...more
Cover Up by John Fenstein is a book about two kid-reporters (Susan Carol and Steve Thomas) who are sent to the Super Bowl to find interesting story-lines and write about them. While they are at the super bowl, the two kids discover that someone on the California Dreams has been taking steroids and getting away with it and it is up to Steve and Susan Carol to uncover this mystery at the Super Bowl. This book did a lot of things right, plot and characters being the two most important things that J...more
I think the book Cover-up: Mystery at the Superbowl was a very good book. I feel this way about this book because there is so much action in it. Every new page there is a possibility of something going terribly wrong or something right. In this book the two main characters/kid reporters are trying to bust the owner of a football team because he is covering the test results for his offensive linemen. I all so liked this book because these kids have solved so many mysteries from the previous book....more
Boy, was I disappointed, but maybe my anticipation for this book was too great. I have booktalked it to my students with, "this is a book with the SuperBowl in Indianapolis, except they got the name of the stadium wrong." That often interests them. Feinstein shows he has an ax to grind with a few people, including Chris Berman (unless that's supposed to be a joke), and slams Jeff George, who went to high school in Indianapolis and has done a lot for charity. There's too much talking and not enou...more
Cover-up is a mystery about a boy and girl named Susan Carol Anderson and Stevie Thomas. They have ssolved mysteries before in previous books in this series but none have been like this one because they're in the superdome at the superbowl. They both have reporting jobs there because of working for reporters at the final four and U.S. tennis tournament. They were scheduled to both work for a kids/teens T.V. show but at the last second before they went to the superdome they fired Stevie and hire...more
Cover-Up by John Feinstein is about two kids ( Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson) who try to tell the world about a problem in the Super Bowl. Stevie is a news paper reporter and Susan Carol is a TV reporter. It sounds pretty easy to expose the world to this problem but it's not that easy. They have owners,players,and the NFL to get by in order to tell the world.
I liked the book because it kept me at the edge of my seat most of the book.I didn't like that Stevie let Susan Carol's boss push...more
I liked the book because it kept me at the edge of my seat most of the book.I didn't like that Stevie let Susan Carol's boss push...more
I typically don't try to start a series with the 3rd book but when you don't realize you are reading the 3rd book, well, it happens. The great thing is that Feinstein lays enough foundation that missing book 1 & 2 don't hurt a thing. One quickly discovers all they need to know & understand about Stevie & Susan Carol.
The plot is very focused on those who enjoy sports & want to live the kid dream of getting to meet sports-celebrities. Everyone from Chris Berman to Ray Lewis are de...more
The plot is very focused on those who enjoy sports & want to live the kid dream of getting to meet sports-celebrities. Everyone from Chris Berman to Ray Lewis are de...more
This is a great age-appropriate mystery centered around two saavy 14-year-old sports reporters. Stevie and Susan Carol are likeable, but make typical young teenager mistakes. The adult role models are also believable, especially since they don't make decisions for the young journalists, but help them make the best decisions they can based on the evidence they've uncovered. While I appreciated the intermingling of real and fictional sports and celebrity personalities, the MASSIVE cast of characte...more
Stevie Thomas is a fourteen year old sports fanatic who has saved a player from blackmailing at the final four. He has also proved that a kidnapping was actually a hoax. After that, he and his partner, Susan Carol were hired by USTV to do a show. Three months later, he was fired because he “didn’t have enough leader ship with the team." It left Susan Carol furious. He flies to Indianapolis to work as a journalist for the Super Bowl. When he lands at the airport, he meets Sean McManus who hires h...more
I thought it was a pretty good book. It was really hard to get into at first. When they were at the Super Bowl the book started to get good.This book is about two young reporters, Stevie and Susan Carol. They go to the Super Bowl to report but end up in the middle of a drug testing scandal. One night, Susan Carol went to an N.F.L. party and a drunk doctor for one of the teams, The Dreams, comes up to her trying to impress her. He accidentally tells her that some of the players on his team are us...more
Jul 29, 2010
Steven Kent
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
light-reading,
young-adult-kids
A very satisfying book.
The author, John Feinstein, knows his stuff... and not just about football. I came at this book with a background in journalism. I have covered big events, been through the check points and needed press credentials.
This is a middle grade reader, a story meant for tweens and early teens, so the story is a bit more simplistic than reality. Good thing, too. The reality would be a bit more boring.
As the story begins, two 14-year-olds have a sweet gig working as kid reporters f...more
The author, John Feinstein, knows his stuff... and not just about football. I came at this book with a background in journalism. I have covered big events, been through the check points and needed press credentials.
This is a middle grade reader, a story meant for tweens and early teens, so the story is a bit more simplistic than reality. Good thing, too. The reality would be a bit more boring.
As the story begins, two 14-year-olds have a sweet gig working as kid reporters f...more
I think I've purchased just about every book Feinstein has written for my library because they are so popular. Cover-Up has been out for awhile and I've been meaning to read it, so I jumped at the chance to listen to it. It was read by the author, and I hope he doesn't read anymore. The reading wasn't as good as it could've been. Too monotone for me.[return][return]Steve and Susan Carol are back as the famous kid sports reporters. They have already solved mysteries at the U.S. Open and the NCAA...more
A great kids story. Apparently these teens are recurring characters in other books by John Feistein. They are Steve Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson. They are young reporters on the "sports beat". As they cover various sports events they seem to keep becoming aware of unethical or illegal behavior and resolve to expose it. That's brings them across some pretty rough characters. I would recommend this book for any middle school aged child, especially boys who may be reluctant readers.
I dont enjoy too many books. You know this book is good because i really enjoyed it. It is a book that i couldnt put down. You know how books are to short and they leave you hangin. Well this book has just the right amount of length and it isnt too long where you just want to get done with it. It is written very well and i like the way the author talks about things. You would think that a teenager is writing it because you feel the same way about things as the author. It is a book that i can rel...more
In this book a teenage sports reporter is attending the Super Bowl for live coverage of the game. But he notices that there is something funny about the California Dreams offensive line. They are really BIG. He knows that the entire offensive line failed their weigh in and that it would be one of the biggest sports scandels that ever would have happened. Steve and Carol don't know how to go about this but they're sure they won't let them get away with it.
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John Feinstein is one of the nation’s most successful and prolific sports authors who has written 24 books to date. His most recent work Are You Kidding Me? , written with Rocco Mediate, was released on May 18, 2009, and is presently on the shelf at bookstores everywhere. In addition, he is an award-winning columnist and regular contributor in both radio and television.
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