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Brief Summary Of Loser Take All By David Klass

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The book Loser Take All by: David Klass is set in modern day in New Jersey. Jack Logan is a young boy who attends this sports crazy school. With Principal Gentry death Fremont High School is left with trying to figure out who should take his spot. During the summer Fremont High School found Mr. Muhldinger who accepted the principal position. Mr. Muhldinger had made a policy that all of the seniors had to play a sport. In which some of the students that attend Fremont High School were not thrilled of this new policy. Meanwhile, as the students of Fremont High School were finding out about this new policy. Jack Logan and some other kids were asked to play a pickup game of football. While the pick up game was going on Jack ended up getting …show more content…

After a while of Becca and Jack hanging out they started to date. Becca and Jack talked about what sport that they were planning on playing because of the new policy. Becca was telling Jack how she was going to play C team for soccer and she convinced Jack to join with her. So one day Jack went and told Principle Muhldinger about how he did not want the starting varsity spot and that he was going to play soccer instead. Principle Muhldinger informs Jack that there is no sponsor for soccer and that there is not going to be a …show more content…

The information about how Mrs. Logan almost married Mr. Muhldinger was needed because it shows you the relationship between Mr. Muhldinger and the Logan family but not only that it shows you how small of a town the story takes place in. Also the information on why Mr. Logan did not go professional in football was needed because it shows you why Mr. Logan was pushing his children to play football. Though there was a lot of information that author was able to add in some humor in the book. The parts in the book that Klass described that made me laugh was when the soccer team of misfits first took the field they were falling asleep, running into each other, getting hurt, and falling into a pond and almost drowning. Not only were the group of misfits funny on the field but each one of their characters gave me something to laugh

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