Game Day Football: An Interactive Sports Story

By Matt Doeden and Francisco Bueno Capeáns

Suit up and get on the football field! Your team is facing down a mighty opponent, and your choices can mean the difference between a triumphant victory and a heartbreaking loss. Will you run the ball or throw it? Will you go for the tackle or try to strip the ball loose? Toss a short pass or fire it into the end zone? The pressure is on. Do you have what it takes to lead your team to the big win?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: Jan 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781977157270

Matt Doeden

Matt Doeden began his career as a sports writer. Since then, he's spent more than a decade writing and editing children's nonfiction. Matt lives in Minnesota with his family.

Book preview

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ABOUT YOUR GAME

YOU are about to step onto the field for the biggest football game of your life. You’re playing for the championship, and every decision you make will affect the outcome. Will you be aggressive? Or will you play it safe? Can you protect a lead? Or will you need to lead a big comeback? YOU CHOOSE what happens on the field. Do you have what it takes?

Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page as you read the stories. The decisions you make will change your outcome. After you finish one path, go back and read the others for new perspectives and more adventures. Use your device's back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice.

CHAPTER 1

GAME TIME

The locker room smells of sweat. A heavy hip-hop beat thumps as you and your teammates prepare to take the field for the biggest game of your lives.

As you strap on your shoulder pads, you close your eyes. You picture yourself standing on the field. The crowd is roaring as the ball is snapped. The game is on the line, and it’s up to you to make the play. You imagine every detail. You picture yourself making the play. Winning the game. Celebrating with your teammates. You take a slow, deep breath.

You stand up and pull your jersey over your head. Are we ready? you shout.

Together, your teammates respond, We are ready! Then everyone begins to shout and howl. You slap each other’s helmets. You slam your pads into each other. You work yourselves into a frenzy.

Your head coach looks on with a smile. This is your team’s pregame ritual. It’s how you prepare yourselves. It’s how you get charged up.

Then let’s go! you shout.

As a unit, the team charges out of the locker room, following your lead. Together, you burst out onto the field, soaking in the roar of the crowd.

It’s game time, and a championship is on the line. Do you have what it takes to claim it?

To play linebacker for your high school in the conference title game, press here.

To be a running back in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship, press here.

To lead your team in the Super Bowl as a quarterback, press here.

CHAPTER 2

HIGH SCHOOL HERO

Your heart is pumping as you peer into your opponent’s backfield from your position at middle linebacker. In the background, you hear the roar of the crowd and the beat of your team’s fight song. The smell of damp grass and mud drifts up from the trampled field. You glance to your left, where your best friend, Teddy, prepares to rush the quarterback from his spot at defensive end.

It’s the second quarter of the conference championship. You’re facing East High, the best team in the state. Nobody thinks your team has a chance of winning.