Setting and Conflict in, "Million Dollar Throw"

This is a fantastic book with many exciting moments along with some sad ones. The setting of the novel is in present day Valley, Massachusetts where a boy named Nate Brodie, the biggest Tom Brady fan in the world, is the star quarterback of his football team, a position in which everybody expects great things. As highly praised as he is, he soon falls under immense pressure after winning the chance of a lifetime, the chance to throw a football through a hoop from thirty yards away on Thanksgiving night, his prize if successful, one million dollars.

Although he should be practicing for the "Million Dollar Throw" he realizes that after his dad lost one of his jobs, the Brodie family took a hard hit financially, but would never let Nate know because his parents thought that as a kid, Nate already had too much to worry about, he doesn't need to worry about money too. As big of a conflict as that was, an even bigger one for him was the fact that his best friend, Abby, was going blind. It started off mild for her, having trouble seeing distances, or getting her colors mixed up, but this rapidly progressed for the worse. Her parents decided to send her to Perkins School for the Blind, where she wouldn't feel as much out-of -place as she did around Valley, Mass.

This really took it's toll on Nate, looking up to the stands during his game and not seeing her made him upset and play much worse then he already had been playing. Even though Nate had these huge obstacles in his life, he realized how much a million dollars could do for his family and for Abby's condition. After comprehending this for a while, he has his mind set on making "The Millon Dollar Throw"