Imitate the Tiger

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Summary: Imitate the Tiger
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The book that I recently read was Imitate the Tiger written by Jan Cheripko. The story main character is Chris Serbo, a senior at Valley View High. Chris loves football and is athletic, but he likes to drink too much. He faces many conflicts and obstacles when he starts drinking constantly. He slowly changes and starts to lose all his loved ones. Since his mother died and his father wasn't capable of keeping Chris, he lives with his Aunt Catherine. He comes in drunk just about every night, but it is just a normal life for Chris until he makes the wrong decision. Now he is trying to find his way out of this horrible nightmare. His grades are starting to drop if he doesn't shape up he might fail school, and get kicked out of the house. Chris also is trying to play in the championship game he has little time, and very small choices on what to do with life, but the night of the school dance ignites all of his problems. He has to come face to face with his fears to save everything he loves.

Mrs. Whittaker, Chris' teacher at Valley View High is trying to understand why Chris is changing. He is a good student, but when his grades start dropping she is a mission to see what's up. She thinks Chris is drinking but doesn't have any proof. Chris thinks that she is out to get him, but he find out that she is trying to help. He has two decisions, and time is running out fast. He has to race against the clock to turn his life around and I think time has just run out.

I think this book was great. I really liked how the author made the story actually come to life, I felt like I was in the story. It shows me a description on how a senior's life is. It also tells people about drinking, you shouldn't do it or you could lose everything that you love. I recommend this book to all people who like sports and that like books with many tragic conflicts. Anyone who likes to actually get into a story should read this. It gives you great pictures in your mind on a senior's life that plays football and drinks. It also can get you into different mood swings like when he gets beat up, you feel mad and when he broke up with his girlfriend you feel sorry for him.

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Summary: Imitate the Tiger is an excellant book for teenagers !
Review: In the novel the main character is a senior, who plays defense for Valley View High School Dragons varsity football team. After football games Chris drinks heavily and gets home very late at night. Chris's mom had passed away when he was young and his dad lives ina military base. Chris's dad is an alcoholic and never comes to see his football games. Chris lives with his Aunt Catherine since he was very little.

Chris looses his girlfriend,his grades start to drop, and living with his Aunt Catherine has caused many problems that have ended with him drinking. After friends and teachers expected drinking probelms from Chris they get a plan so Chris will go to a rehab center after his football team plays his championship game.

At the rehab school Chris will try to rebuild his life so he doesn't end up like his father. After his Aunt Catherines death Chris now realizes how much trouble he has caused his friends, teachers, and family and begins to take the 12 steps to overcome his drinking problem.

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Summary: Imitate The Tiger
Review: Searching to fill the void in his life, Chris Serbo, begins to find comfort in alcohol. As he struggles to play football and copes with the loss of his parents, his grades begin to drop and he finds trouble at home with Aunt Catherine. Chris's life seemed normal, from the outside, until the big mistake happened. Now he finds himself in a place he never dreamed he would be. There are many battles Chris will face as he begins the long journey to find himself, but will perseverance see him through? This is a captivating story of a young teenage boy striving to survive the hardships of life. He suffers many consequences that are a result of alcohol. This book would be interesting to young teens in the eighth grade and above. Teachers as well as parents could use this book to teach or study physical education, social studies, social relationships and health.

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Summary: Facts Review
Review: The book I just finished was Imitate The Tiger by: Jan Cheripko. It is about a teenager who loves playing football and likes to drink alcohol. It talks about his life and how alcohol ruins all of the areas of his life-reputation, football, school, family, and friends.
The main character is a Senior, Chris Serbo. He lives in a little town in the US with his Aunt Catharine. His Aunt is a pretty big woman, and his dad worked in the army, he was an alcoholic.
At one part of the book Chris almost gets kicked of the Football team, because a teacher caught him drinking at Connie's Bar. Miss Whitterker. She wants him off the team but some other teachers suggest he should just skip one game. But they can't do that with out the citizens agreeing if he should get kicked off or if he should skip a game, because it's the town's team too. One night, after a party Chris gets drunk and finds an unpleasant and painful surprise he won't forget, on the highway on his way home.
I don't really like reading but I really enjoyed this book, and I think that this book a real good book for teenagers, because it deals with real life.

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Summary: my book review
Review: The book I recently finished was a book called Imitate the Tiger by Jan Cheripko.This book is about a boy named Chris serbo. Chris is a big athlete who is in love with the game of football but also in love with alcohol.
I liked this book because it shows real life situations that happen in a high school student's lives. One other thing I liked about this book was that it was about football because football is a great sport. The last thing that I liked about the book was that it shows teenagers that alcohol ruins everything you like and care for. For example Chris and football.
The book mainly is about how Chris's obsession with alcohol destroys his relationship with his friends, his girl friend, his parents, and his schoolwork. I definitely agree with the theme. I think the theme is really up to date and something that would affect a high school student. This theme relates to me in no way at all because I don't drink but I do play football.
I would recommend this book to others. I would recommend this to mostly boys because it deals with alcohol and sports. This book was a really good book because it dealt with real life situations that a high school boy would deal with. If I had the chance to read this book again I would because it was such a good book and I liked how it dealt with football.

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Summary: Alcohol and Addiction: Imitate the Tiger Review
Review: This book was on the same level as teen life during high school years. There are a lot of teens like Chris Serbo out there. Some kids turn to drugs or alcohol because their home life isn't good or they're depressed. In Imitate the Tiger, alcohol controls Chris Serbo's life. He is a senior in high school, a linebacker on the football team, and his life is a downhill tumble and an uphill struggle because of his addiction to alcohol.
He doesn't get along with his only guardian, his Aunt Catherine, and he justifies his drinking by blaming his dad's alcoholism and his friends'drinking. However, what Serbo doesn't realize is that he takes it too far. He gets drunk at a school dance, and it becomes one of the worst nights of his life. Chris risks his position on the football team as linebacker with his drinking.
His English teacher, Mrs. Whittaker, confronts him with his problem and he gets mad. Chris doesn't think he has a problem; he says he doesn't drink any more than anybody else does, but he does. He steals from his aunt's liquor cabinet, and he sneaks into bars after football games. A mutual decision toward the end of the book changes his life. Mrs. Whittaker, his Aunt Catherine and the principal decide to send Chris to a school for alcoholics to help him with his problem. He goes to try to conquer his alcohol demons.
I recommend Imitate the Tiger to any teen that knows someone going down the wrong road or likes an eye-opening story.

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Summary: This is a really powerful book for teenagers and I am one
Review: This is a really good book. The scenes of the story come alive. I have to read it for 9 AD English and it was one of the first school books that I enjoyed reading. We have to read it because it is about the school I go to, Valley Central High School. The football stats are correct to because in 1969 we won the Section IX championship and went undefeated.

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Summary: Super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is a very well written and excellent book to read if you like sports. It is all about a young man named Chris Serbo who has a drinking problem. He plays football for has high school team at Valley View High and is working very hard to make it to the championship game. But because of drinking he is not doing so well in school. If he does not shape up his Aunt Catherine just might kick him out of the house. He lives with his aunt because his mother is dead and his father is a drunk. He is also starting to lose himself in all of the mix up