Copyright © 2010 by Carl Deuker
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Deuker, Carl.
Payback time / by Carl Deuker.
p. cm.
Summary: Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports
reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he is determined to be a writer,
but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand
out on the field—or to discuss his past.
ISBN 978-0-547-27981-7
[1. Reporters and reporting—Fiction. 2. Football—Fiction. 3. Overweight persons—
Fiction. 4. Courage—Fiction. 5. Secrets—Fiction. 6. High schools—Fiction.
7. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D493Pay 2010
[Fic]—dc22 2010006779
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