The Big Game of Everything

By Chris Lynch

You have to love your family. You do, even if you don’t, right? You don’t have to understand them or play tennis with them, but you have to love them. It’s a rule, and it’s the kind of rule you don’t break unless you’re some kind of animal.

My brother happens to be some kind of animal. My sister rides this sweet gold Honda scooter and has amazing hair. You’d hate her. My parents are vegetarian let-the-sunshine-in freaks. Lovable freaks but freaks all the same. My grand­father possesses a shocking comb-over, a kilt, about half of his original marbles, and his own golf complex. This summer, we are all working for him. It is going to be two hot, lucrative, carefree months of paradise.

Or, possibly something else.

ISBN: 9780060740344
Imprint: HarperColl
On Sale: Sep 2, 2008
List price: $18.5
No of pages: 288
Trim Size: 5.310 in (w) x 7.410 in (h) x 1.030 in (d)
BISAC 1: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / General (see also headings under Family) *
BISAC 2: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Humorous / General *
BISAC 3: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Boys & Men *

Chris Lynch

Biography

Chris Lynch is a National Book Award finalist and the author of many highly acclaimed books for young adults, including The Big Game of Everything, Who the Man, and the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Freewill; Iceman, Shadow boxer, Gold Dust, and Slot Machine, all ALA Best Books for Young Adults; and Extreme Elvin. He also mentors aspiring writers and teaches in the creative writing program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

You have to love your family. You do, even if you don’t, right? You don’t have to understand them or play tennis with them, but you have to love them. It’s a rule, and it’s the kind of rule you don’t break unless you’re some kind of animal.

My brother happens to be some kind of animal. My sister rides this sweet gold Honda scooter and has amazing hair. You’d hate her. My parents are vegetarian let-the-sunshine-in freaks. Lovable freaks but freaks all the same. My grand­father possesses a shocking comb-over, a kilt, about half of his original marbles, and his own golf complex. This summer, we are all working for him. It is going to be two hot, lucrative, carefree months of paradise.

Or, possibly something else.

ISBN: 9780060740344
Imprint: HarperColl
On Sale: Sep 2, 2008
List price: $18.5
No of pages: 288
Trim Size: 5.310 in (w) x 7.410 in (h) x 1.030 in (d)
BISAC 1: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / General (see also headings under Family) *
BISAC 2: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Humorous / General *
BISAC 3: YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Boys & Men *

Chris Lynch

Biography

Chris Lynch is a National Book Award finalist and the author of many highly acclaimed books for young adults, including The Big Game of Everything, Who the Man, and the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Freewill; Iceman, Shadow boxer, Gold Dust, and Slot Machine, all ALA Best Books for Young Adults; and Extreme Elvin. He also mentors aspiring writers and teaches in the creative writing program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.