<i><b>Another exciting, fast-paced sports story from Fred Bowen featuring lots of play-by-play action<br /></b></i>Matt Monroe is a shoo-in for starting quarterback for the Parkside Middle School football team this year.<br /> Or is he?<br /> Devro, a new seventh grader, looks pretty impressive. He's consistent and can run the plays almost as well as Matt. And he's got speed.<br /> As the fall football season unfolds, the team has more than its share of surprises and unexpected challenges, as well as plenty of victories and upsets on and off the field - all of which Matt records and analyzes in a journal he keeps for his English class. By the last kickoff of the season, Matt has learned that a team is only as good as the sum of its parts and that playing together is the only way to win.<br /> <br />