The Losers at the Center of the Galaxy

by Mary Winn Heider

Book Overview

A tuba player without a tuba and his jellyfish-imitating sister cope with their father's disappearance in this hilarious and moving novel by the author of The Mortification of Fovea Munson.

When Lenny Volpe, former quarterback of the worst professional football team in the nation, leaves his family and disappears, the Chicago Horribles win their first game in a long time. Fans are thrilled. The world seems to go back to normal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759555427
• ISBN13: 9780759555426
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A Genuinely Good Book

I didn’t quite expect to like this one quite so much as I did. But I did a cover-to-cover of it without even realizing, so… A good job of capturing the characters’ individualities and just making enjoyable story without any fluff. I love a book that can say this many interesting things without wasting a single word!