num_pages: 339
description: When we first meet Michael Oher, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football and school after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.
language: English
title: The Blind Side
titlecomplete: The Blind Side
genres: Business, Biography, Football, Memoir, Nonfiction, Sports, Adult, History, Biography Memoir, Audiobook
ratings_count: 94492
places: Memphis, Tennessee
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Iowa High School Book Award
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company