Athlete vs. Mathlete by W.C. Mack
Review by Elijah Meltzer
Athlete vs. Mathlete is by W.C. Mack and is about two boys named Owen Evans, (“Basketball superstar, lights up the scoreboards”) and Russell Evans (“Brainiac powerhouse, lights up the school boards.”). This book takes place in Portland Oregon in about 2008. About
midway through the book Russell is forced by the new coach to play for the pioneers the school basketball team, because he is tall. He becomes a superstar and takes Owen’s place! Owen gets really mad and does some mean things. I enjoyed this book a lot because I could really sense what the characters were feeling.
My favorite part of the book was when Owen gives a play by play of his basketball games because I like basketball so I really get to know what is going on and how he is feeling. For example, “When the ball was tossed, I went for it. My fingers touched it first, and I pushed the ball toward Nicky Chu. He caught it and pivoted fast before passing it to Nate James. Nate was the fastest guy on the pioneers, and made a breakaway, dribbling toward the basket. Right when he got to the hoop, he looked left then passed to me. As soon as I got the ball I lined up and took the shot. Swish!” (W.C. Mack, pg. 22-23).
I would recommend this book to people that like basketball, problem solving or friendship problems. Because all of those things come up a lot in this book.
I would rate this book 4 out of 5 stars.
I liked how you gave a quote from the book.
I agree Marlo. The quote really made Elijah’s point more vivid.
Wow, nice review! I loved it how you took part of the book and put it into your review. maybe I should do that some time!
But anyway, here’s my question, when I heard this title I thought, couldn’t the mathlete calculate the coordenants of where the ball was going so he could play well? I say thats a real mathlete.
Thanks! Really funny by the way.
Have it. It looks cool.
You should read it! It’s really good!
It sounds like a really good book and good explanation because in most reviews that I’ve read there is something that I feel would be important that it was included but not this review.
I really liked how you put a quote from in the book into your review. I think that the quote made it more persuasive then it would have been without it.
I loved that reveiw I should totally read that book.I really agree with Harvey on that I will keep an eye open for it
It also seems to me that you could probably categorize this in both sports and realistic fiction, right?
Sorry! Whoops, my bad!