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'Fine,' Joshua said, slamming the car door.  'Where am I going to find a job that pays that much? How can I save $250 by the beginning of August?'
'If you want it enough,' Mom said 'You'll find a way.'
Fourteen-year-old Joshua Benton is stuck between a sand trap and a hard place. Caddying at Glenwood Country Club is the only summer job where he can earn enough for football camp. But unlike football, a real guy's sport, golf is a sport for wimps. And his friends will laugh at him for carrying golf clubs around for stuffy old country club members. Yet without football camp, Joshua won't make the freshman team. And without high school football, there won't be a college scholarship.
Becoming a caddie is almost as hard as school. Joshua has to interview for the position, train for five weeks and pass a test, watch his "smart mouth," and put up with the head honor caddie's needling. Then the real trouble starts when the Country Club offers a golf clinic for inner-city kids in Joshua's neighborhood and someone frames them as thieves!
As he plots to catch the real thief, Joshua relies on principles he islearning from the game of golf. First and foremost is complete focus. Joshua's challenges and triumphs are told for reluctant readers in Clubhouse Threat, a new Cover-to-Cover Novel from Perfection Learning.
Readers in grades 4-9 will learn that:
- reaching a goal takes determination, hard work, and perseverance.
- being respectful and polite gets you further than losing your cool.
- keeping an open mind is crucial in new situations.
- people often are not as they seem.
- doing what is right for you is a must, no matter what your friendsthink.
- making friends with people from different backgrounds can be rewarding.
Clubhouse Threat offers easily understood language in ten brief, fast-paced chapters. With dialogue and situations that ring true, challenged readers will immediately embrace Joshua as a real kid with real problems.
To further enhance reading comprehension and vocabulary, every Cover-to-Cover title offers a companion Portals to Reading Teacher Resource. With approximately 30 activities, each Portals develops and strengthens word analysis skills, comprehension skills, study skills,creative skills, and spelling and vocabulary skills. The reproducible activities provide practice, application, and assessment opportunities using language from the book.
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