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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?