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Slugfest

by Gordon Korman

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Summer school puts a mismatched team to the test

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Summer school puts a mismatched team to the test

Yash excels at sports, yet a missed eighth-grade PE credit sends him to summer school with classmates who each struggle with the subject in different ways. Their course, nicknamed “Slugfest,” brings together an academic standout, feuding twins, a prankster, a protester, and an athlete who has turned away from sports. When a classmate sets out to expose a scandal that could undermine the group’s efforts, Yash must decide how to respond. Gordon Korman builds the story around an unlikely school team and the complications that arise when its members have to work together.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers ages 9–12 interested in school-based fiction and sports.
  • Readers who enjoy ensemble stories about classmates with contrasting strengths and challenges.
  • Readers looking for a humorous premise involving summer school and physical education.

Themes

TeamworkSchool and educationSportsFriendship and cooperation

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Book overview

From Gordon Korman, the New York Times bestselling author of Restart, comes a hilarious new story about a group of underdogs who come together when they are forced to attend summer school--for failing PE.

Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School--so good, in fact, that he's already playing on the high school's JV sports teams. Imagine his shock when he learns that his JV practices have kept him from earning a state-mandated credit for eighth-grade PE. To graduate, he has to take Physical Education Equivalency--PEE, also known as "Slugfest"--in summer school.

Yash gets to know his fellow "slugs" Kaden, an academic superstar who's physically hopeless; twins Sarah and Stewart, who are too busy trying to kill each other to do any real PE; Jesse, a notorious prankster; Arabella, who protests everything; and Cleo, a natural athlete who has sworn off sports.

But when one of them tries to blow the lid off a scandal that could make all their time in summer school a waste, Yash is forced to take drastic action.

Teaming up with the most hapless crew in school can really surprise a person. And their teacher might be hiding the biggest surprise yet. . . .

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