When a chance yard-sale purchase nets five
boys a Willie Mays rookie card worth $4,000,
their lives seem to narrow and intensify.
The boys devise a "last man" contest-the
winner gets the Mays card, and losers get
zip.
Twelve-year-old Albert has a life-and-death
reason for winning the card-and his own
special terrors about the abandoned mine
where the boys have hidden the card for safe
keeping. Just how far is Albert willing to
go to be the last man?
Awards
1999-2000 Volunteer State Book Award
Master
List (TN)
1999-2000 Iowa Children’s Choice Awards
Master List
1999 Sasquatch Reading Award Master List
(WA)
1999 Utah Children’s Book Award Master
List
2001 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers’ Book
Award Master List (IL)
Reviews
"(David) shows that suspense is possible
without ... outright villainy, and that
reading about good people who do right
is just as satisfying as reading about
bad people getting their just deserts."
—Kirkus Reviews
1999-2000 Volunteer State Book Award
