What is raiders night about

I rate this book a 5 out of 5 stars because it made me want to keep reading. May 18, Kyle rated it really liked it. Raiders Night was a tremendous book. Raiders Night is based on a public High school's football team named the Raiders. Matt Rydek the main character in the book is the teams captain, serving his senior year. Matt and a few of his friends thrived every day to be a better player for the team, by doing so most of the guys on the team including Matt took steriods, and Viconin.

With most the boys fit, and popular they would always go to parties after games and get all the ladies. During the start of Raiders Night was a tremendous book. During the start of the book the team had a training camp which ended two days before school started. The team just finished their last practice before they went back home to see there friends and family. It is a ritual that on the last night before the players pack up to leave the camp that they pick on the freshman players.

The team all met up in one cabin and stripped the freshman which were on their knees. Chris a freshman was the last one to join his other freshman companions. What would his consequences be? Let me put it this way Chris urgently got un-blindfolded urgently and he left crying.

With the situation occuring it effected Raiders football for the rest of the season and will always effect players for the rest of their life. Matt went on with his succesfull, strong team, and went far. Matt had a forgotten brother by his parents named Junie. Junie was chubby but loved his older brother, Matt who was his role model. Not only does Matt get very good oppurtunities, but so does his father with his catering service he owns.

Mike Rydek Matts Father was the one Matt disliked the most because Mike would always push him to get better at his game. With all of the scholarships Matt is getting from D1 schools it is only a matter of time for when he will choose on where he goes. With most things riding smoothly for Matt he meets a girl named Sarah, will this effect Matt and his choice of his Colleges?

Raiders Night was a very enjoyable book, it brought the story to life every chapter. I strongly recommend this book to athletes. The book is based on an athletes life. I am not a NFL lover but when you read the book it will relate to you, and your own life perhaps. I am very happy that I bought this book! Well money spent! Jan 18, Kylep rated it liked it. This story is about a football team striving for glory and facing many challenges on the way.

The main character of this book is a boy named Matt who is the captain of the football team. The football team in this book is just like any other high school football team.

They all go through the same practicing and weight lifting schedules as we do at our school for football. In this story there are many unique characters such as Tyrell who is the running back of the team, Chris who is wide receiver, Ramp who is the full back and Brody is the quarterback.

Matt is the captain and another wide receiver. Now, these are just the main characters being referenced in the book. At the beginning of the story all these players have one thing they want to achieve and that is to win a championship but all that changes later on throughout the book. As I said this story is just like any other high school football team with the big games, the hard practices, and all the parties after a game.

From my perspective I think this story kind of shied away from talking about football and what I thought it was going to be about. This story is mostly about Matt going through high school and the many rough times that he experiences. This story started out talking about football and just veered more and more away from it as the story went on, so I didn't really like that. The story contains many up and down moments. There are many big arguments and fights the players get into.

The biggest fight comes when the team assembles a players only meeting. Chris ends up almost killing himself by bringing guns to the meeting and begins threatening other players but it doesn't turn out how he wants it to and he injures himself badly. Matt ends up having to save his life. When I first got this book I thought it would be a big high school football book but it didn't turn out that way. This was an interesting book and not what I expected it to be like although I seemed to enjoy most of it.

This wasn't my favorite book but I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys high school football and about the high school lifestyle. Dec 15, Sean Kincaid rated it it was amazing. Raider's Night is a book that takes place in a town that cares very much about it's high school football program. One of the captains of the team, Matt Rydek, struggles throughout the book as a leader as he must balance what is good for the team and what is the right thing to do.

Something shocking happens at the training camp one summer, and turns his life upside down. One thing I learned from this book, is how hard decisionmaking can be. B Raider's Night is a book that takes place in a town that cares very much about it's high school football program. But Matt came across many situations where no matter what decision he made, multiple lives would be drastically changed in a negative way.

This was the greatest book i've read in years. It pulled me in from the first page and kept me interested throughout the book. I actually enjoyed reading it and finished it within a couple days pages.

The author did a great job building suspense and created situations that made it impossible for the reader to guess what would happen next. One part of the book that I found ineffective was some of the lack of reality.

For example, it seems to portray drugs and alcohol as a positive thing. Throughout the book kids are drinking, doing drugs, taking steriods, and the author seems to only portray the positives of these. I think this would be a great read for athletes, they can relate to a lot of the characters and have a basic understanding of what they're going through that's one reason it kept me interested.

I would not recommend this book for the elderly or young children due to some sexual content. It seems to be targeted for teens, there's lots of texting, ipods, and instant messaging. It's pretty clear who the author has written this book for. The author does a great job of attracting a young audience by using his voice. There's no giant metaphors or analyzation, it's an easily followable book rather than a puzzle. Oct 26, Raul Gonzalez rated it really liked it. Can they win the battle of the hardships they have coming toward them though?

Having to deal taking drugs,rape and plenty other horrendous things that the team will do or wont Lastly what i loved about this story that it brought the reality of "the real world" into its writing and things were handled, thought, and acted upon like real life people would handle it like the struggle chris had threw out the book is something many people can relate to on if he should tell or not.

This are things i liked about the book Raiders Night. I would recommend this book to young adult of 15 and higher because some of the thing in this book could be hard to handle for some kids because it is vivid.

But anyone who likes drama action or who knows of the things that happened to penn. This is who id recommend this book to Jan 29, Timmoy Ellis rated it it was amazing Shelves: my-shelf.

Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte Raider Night by Robert Lipsyte tells a story about football team is hiding a secret about what really happened at training camp. They are falling apart keeping the secret. Some people my think this book is a realist fiction and a sports novel. Matt Ryder is the captain of the football team Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte Raider Night by Robert Lipsyte tells a story about football team is hiding a secret about what really happened at training camp.

Matt Ryder is the captain of the football team, who is like a star at Near Mount High school. He also plays baseball and his dad owns Ryder catering, who played football for Near Mount High and went to college until he had a career ending injury.

He wants matt to get a college scholarship to a Division one school. They had a new player on the team he was a sophomore named Chris, because he was new to the team he had to be initiating to the team.

So one day at summer practice the team was trying to initiate him into the program but it went terrible wrong. Matt is trying to find a way to get the secret out there without ruining his school football program.

I enjoyed reading this book because it is about thing that happens everyday in school. I could understand why Matt was confused on what decision aout the secret. I think that he make the right decision about coming out with the secret. The was really captivating because of how all the character protrayed. There are conflict, girls, freindship, and popularity.

While I was reading the book at times it seem that the teams was going to slip and each captain would play apart to try and persuade each member of the right thing to do.

I would rate this book 4. Apr 27, Austin Arnold rated it it was amazing. From beginning to end this book kept me turning page after page again and again.

Robert Lipstye did an excellent job in bringing to life the kind of things that go on inside the locker room. In this book the main character Matt Rydek, plays on the varsity football team at Nearmont High. There, football players are treated like royalty. Especially Matt, who also happens to be one of the captains. Throughout this book Robert Lipstye throws in twists and turns that you could never see coming. The b From beginning to end this book kept me turning page after page again and again.

The book keeps you interested as Matt struggles between maintaining his loyalty to the team and his morals and what he believes is right. He believes that his job as a captain is to make sure the players can come talk to him about things.

All throughout this book Robert Lipstye takes you deep into the dark corners of the locker room where guys are juicing steroids to get bigger and popping vicodin pills to take the pain away.

This kept me into the book which turned out to be a very quick read for me. I almost wanted to read it again after I was through it was so good. Admitedly, it did have some rather raunchy moments, but it managed to keep the tone of the story. And not for one second did you doubt that you were reading from the perspective of a 17 year old.

Oct 07, Tony added it. Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte My books about football it's about a team that puts the team first it's a about team that plays every down like it's their last they play every game like it's a playoff game! They trust each other they care for one another but here and there they have their ups and downs just like any other team! In my book the characters are teenagers so yes the party reduced of the teenagers do.

The senior players want to have the best season so their job is to get the freshman r Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte My books about football it's about a team that puts the team first it's a about team that plays every down like it's their last they play every game like it's a playoff game!

The senior players want to have the best season so their job is to get the freshman ready the lower class.

So they try to go hard every day yell at them call them names put them down. So the coach decides to take him out of town in the country for a camp they sleep together to eat together a practice all day so they can build a family you have to learn how to sleep together together to play together that's what the coach said. At the end of the camp they learn how to play together so they ended up having a good season that's what I like about this book. UCLA coach Chip Kelly said Monday he believes a Bruins kick that was ruled wide left during the Oregon game actually appeared to go through the uprights.

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Though it's a story that didn't literally happen, Night Raiders recreates the lived, emotional experience of the culture and people who survived the residential school era. Tailfeathers, who plays Niska, says the movie's depiction of Indigenous resilience and hope shows, "that our cultures are still very much alive, our languages are alive. To Maurice — who plays the leader of the titular warriors — language, and its use in Night Raiders , was similarly important.

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