TJ Barnes is back, playing with his crazy cats, T-Rex and Alaska, helping out in his parents' hardware store and goofing around with his best friend, Seymour.
When Seymour announces that he has signed them both up for a football team, TJ fears the worst. Neither of them is huge or mean or able to tackle, catch, throw, run or kick a ball down a field, but Seymour is determined to be a star. With the help of a stack of library books, TJ starts to understand the game but it takes more than a few books to figure out what’s wrong with his best friend.
TJ and the Sports Fanatic is the fourth of five books in the series.
Golden Eagle Children’s Choice | 2009 | Nominated
Forest of Reading Silver Birch Fiction Award | 2007 | Nominated
Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) Our Choice | 2007 | Commended
"Appealing to the sensibilities of boys...interesting facts about football and physics...fun and enlightening...Highly Recommended."