Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally was published by Sourcebooks Fire in the year 2011 and contains 281 pages. Catching Jordan is categorized by the genre realistic fiction. Miranda Kenneally is the author of many inspiring books with her most popular being similar to Catching Jordan, including Stealing Parker and Racing Savannah. Catching Jordan demonstrates that females can play football and be one of the guys, but also maintain a relationship. The purpose of Catching Jordan was to show that girls can play football and be one of the guys, while maintaining to talk and have a relationship with boys. The main character of this book is Jordan Woods. She is not your typical seventeen year old girl. She hangs out with all the football guys, is physically built like guys and is the starting quarterback on her high school's football team. She isn’t trying to get attention or trying to show off by being a girl who plays football, that’s her personality. Her best friend’s name is Henry, who she has known since she was a kid and …show more content…
This book shows that you can do anything you want to if you set your mind to it. Jordan was dedicated to playing football and put a lot of time into it. I liked how the book tied in love with the main theme of if you have a goal, you can reach it, by bringing in Henry and Ty. Once I read that Jordan was the starting quarterback on the football team, my first hypothesis was that she was going to be picked on and made fun of, only to realize that they accept her as one of the guys. I think that the book had a good ending and didn’t leave the reader questioning what will or would happen in the future. Even though Keneally has written other books that are similar, she doesn’t tie them in with each other so each book has it’s own definite