Million Dollar Throw Book Report #2

Trevor Sykes

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Book Project #2

Million Dollar Throw

By Mike Lupica

    Million Dollar Throw by Mike Lupica is a realistic sport novel about a boy named Nate Brodie who is in love with the game of football and his favorite team the Patriots. In the beginning of the story Nate and his best friend Abby go to get this autograft football signed by Nate favorite player Tom Brady. While Their Abby spots a sign for a contest that the store is having.  The Contest is with a $500  purchase or more you can enter a drawing to throw a football, through a target in Half Time of the Patriots game on Thanksgiving.Nate Purchase was more that $500 show he enter. Couple Days later the watch the drawing and he wins. But along the way Nate, Abby and his family start to have some problems and Nate is the one that can fix them. The only way to fix the problems is to win the Million Dollars. Nate won the million dollars but he doesn’t know who to help Abby his best friend that is going to move to a school because she is turning Blind his family that is losing their house because they don’t have enough money.In the end he gives the money to Abby for he to have her eyes fix. The themes are instead of using money on yourself, you should use it on other people. Or in other words, you can change someone's life by not being greedy and friendship.

Nate is the biggest shower of the theme of instead of using money on yourself, you should use it on other people and friendship. He and his Million Dollar that he wins help Abby get her sight back and move back to their normal school.Through the story Nate and Abby alway were together and if they weren’t they were texting. Everyday Nate and Abby would go play catch even to Abby didn’t have the best of sight they still did. Nate would try to baby throw and Abby was such a good and close friend that she knew that he was babying her and she didn’t like it. On page 30 she even says “I may be blind, Brady...””But I’m not stupid.” that show that she can use her other senses to tell if Brady is babying her cause of her blindness. That show that she know a lot about him. Next Nate never in the story talks about how he is going to use the money on himself. It’s always how can my family use it or how can Abby use it never what can I buy or what can I do, Never.

Not only does Nate show the theme but also the event that happen show the theme too. The are many events in the story that portray friendship because they are such good friends, but for writing prepubes I’ll chose the one that stick out to me the most. In Chapter 3, Brady and Abby go to the park to play catch, Abby just got some crazy glass to help her sight. While playing catch Brady is babying her and Abby knows Brady so well that she get mad at him for babying her. Brady say  he is just trying not to hurt her but she said she could take it:and the next throw Brady throws it normal and he hit Abby in the glasses and  he knew right away that something REALLY bad was wrong with her(even more than before.) Next event that combines both theme is at the end of the book when Brady win the million dollars and instead of using it for himself he gives the money to Abby to use to fix her eyesight show she can come back to her normal school with Nate.

Million Dollar Throw is great book, and I would recommend it to anyone who loves football or just a good old friendship novel. Brady and Abby are great character to read about and the story could even help you make decision with money. But overall it is a great story with a amazing lesson with money and how to use it and friendship.