Wattpad brings you a guest post originally published in Teen Ink:
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger
By Skyler M., Sneads Ferry
If you’ve ever been to Texas, you know football is huge. A town there is not measured by its people or how much land it covers, but by the quality of the football program and the number of state championships its team has won. Friday Night Lights tells the story of such a place.
The town of Odessa, Texas prides itself on having the winningest football program in not only Texas, but the entire country. They come into the 1988 season looking for their first state championship under their new and untested coach.
One of the reasons I love this book is that it’s not just about football - it also focuses on race and prejudice.