Brief Review Of 'Touchdown Lions' By Jean Page

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Touchdown Lions! Jean Page was sitting in the stands wishing, hoping that she could soon be on that field throwing touchdowns left and right. Jean Page the 11-year-old six grader at North Monroe Middle has been wanting to play football ever since she went to her first football game with her twin brother JD and her older sister Maggie. JD was very close to Jean Page because they shared most of the same interests such as football. On the other hand Jean Page and her sister Maggie never got along because of the lack of interests they shared, Maggie loved to dance, and Jean Page did not like to dance!
The boys in our family had a long line of football players, and if you were a boy in our family you played football. Her dad played, her brother

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