The Amazing Bo Jackson

by Randi Hacker

a hardback green book about 7"x4" that looks just as the photo in the listing.

Genres: Sports

76 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 1990

About the author

Randi Hacker is the Education Outreach Coordinator at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, a job that is a synthesis of many of the other career tracks she has followed in her life: educator, editor, author, student of Chinese. Randi earned her BA in English Literature from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and spent the better part of her thirties working as the editor of The Electric Company Magazine published by Children's Television Workshop.

Before completing an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language from St. Michael's College in Winooski, Vermont, she dropped out of quite a number of well-respected graduate schools including the University of Michigan, UCLA and Columbia University in New York City.

In addition to her duties as Outreach Coordinator, Randi is the mother of a 12-year-old daughter adopted from China. Her Vermont-based sitcom "Windy Acres" was broadcast on Vermont Public Television and won a Boston/New England Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment Program. Her young adult novel, Life as I Knew It (Simon & Schuster, 2006) was chosen as one of the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2007. She is currently at work on her second YA novel.

Reviews

[Ari]

This book is a short chapter book about the famous athlete Bo Jackson and all his accomplishments as well as how he grew up. Throughout the book it goes over Bo's accomplishments and even how he got into sports and how he got to college. With sports, he was able to be seen by people as nice and friendly. Many colleges wanted Bo to join their teams like, The University of So Cal Trojans, The Tennessee Volunteers, Florida State Seminoles, and University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors. But he turned them all down due to their affiliation with drugs and alcohol and are known as party schools. He also wanted to stay within his home state, so Bo picked The University of Alabama Crimson. Bo had always loved Bama. The coach then told Bo he most likely wouldn't see any action on the field until the 2nd or 3rd year. So ultimately Bo said no to Bama's offer and went to play for Auburn. Once it gets to chapter 4 the book focuses on Bo in the pros. as well as goes through all of his stats while playing football and baseball.

[wjkb · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is really cool mostly because I never knew that Bo Jackson played Baseball and Football. In this book they have a lot of cool pictures and detail. Really awesome book!!!!!!!