Knockout Games

Written by G. Neri

Narrated by Ali Ahn

Knockout Games is set in modern day St. Louis amidst a disturbing rash of seemingly random attacks on bystanders by a group of urban teenagers in a crew called the TKO club. The protagonist, Erica, is one of a few girls who is down with TKO in part due to her natural skill with a video camera and her ability to make art out of the attacks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781490656502

G. Neri

G. Neri is the Coretta Scott King honor-winning author of Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty and the recipient of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award for his free verse novella, Chess Rumble. His novels include Surf Mules and the Horace Mann Upstander Award-winning Ghetto Cowboy. His latest books include the YA novel Knockout Games, and the picture book biography Hello, I'm Johnny Cash. His work has been honored by the Museum of Tolerance and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Antioch University, the International Reading Association, the American Library Association, the Junior Library Guild, and the National Council for Teachers of English. Neri has been a filmmaker, animator, teacher, and digital media producer. He currently writes full-time and lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida with his wife and daughter.

Reviews for Knockout Games

[readingbeader · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This will play better in a more urban area I think. I'm not sure my rural kids could identify with this one even though it's quite a message.

[sullywriter_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Raw, tough, and compelling.