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Muckers

by Sandra Neil Wallace

Ages: 12+

Published: 2013

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf/Random House

ISBN: 978-0-375-86754-5

Keywords: Korean War, Racism, Anti-communism

In 1950 in Hatley, Arizona, the mine is about to close. Can Red lead the town's high school football team to victory against the odds in the Muckers very last season?