Review: Interesting and well-written combination of sports/detective story full of action for preteen readers
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2014
"Touchdown Tony Crowne and the Mystery of the Missing Cheerleader" by Peter Guy George is an interesting combination of sports and detective story full of action for preteen and younger teen readers.The main character named Tony Crowne is 10 years old boy who loves football though he's not highly skilled athlete. His father who is ex-wrestling champion loves to play with Tony, the only problem being that their large dog Airedale, loves to join their game that makes a mess in the house.Tony has two best friends - first named Judd Judson is a new student and good football player, and Ashley Richardson who leads the cheerleading team. When Ashley will disappear the morning before Tony's big football game, he won't be sure what happened to her, whether in her disappearance has participated Felicity Whittaker, a girl that was very furious about not being chosen to join the cheerleader team or Ashley simply run away...At the same time Tony will have to try concentrating on the game, but will constantly think about how to help the Detective who investigates the disappearance of Ashley.Peter Guy George made an action-packed and fast-paced book that offers a lot of excitement both on the sport and the detective fields which the author skillfully interweaves.His literary style is adjusted to the age of the reader who addresses and the way he wrote his book doesn't reveal that it was his debut work.Therefore, this engaging book for young readers can certainly be recommended as it's at the same time an interesting and well-written work that is not too long and will easily keep the attention and entertain readers.