Crash Battleship Game by Sera, Taryn, and Talia-HLA 6/7

Title: Crash

Author: Jerry Spinelli

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Summary: Crash Coogan is the seventh grade football sensation. He first tackled his cousin when he was four and had loved it ever since. He plays with Mike Deluca, his best friend who lives down the street. They think nothing is more hilarious than pulling pranks on their vegetarian and Quaker neighbor, Penn Webb. Obviously, Penn never did anything wrong. He just was a real nerd, and unfortunately, Crash and Mike prey off how easy pulling pranks on him is. However lately, Crash has been feeling rather strange about pulling these pranks on Penn. Then, when Mike takes a prank too far and pushes Penn to the brink of breaking, Crash realizes he needs to choose who he really is.