Something For Joey
Do you know the true meaning of courage and love? Richard E. Peck has marvelously shown these ideas in Something For Joey (Bantam Young Reader; $7.50). Peck's themes are love, compassion and courage. He describes wonderfully, the true, memorable, compassionate story of courage and love between two brothers.
In 1973, while John Cappelletti was winning the Heisman Trophy as the outstanding college football player in America, his younger brother Joey, John's younger brother, was suffering from leukemia. Something For Joey the true-life story of John Cappelletti, once a…