![]() ![]() Ant has to overcome the teasing and “trash-talking” for having a girl as a partner and decide what he should do when he learns his family secrets.įor further details, please refer to this GoodReads Link. Another layer is the many struggles and secrets in Ant’s family and other characters in the story. When Ant and his buddy Jamal get caught playing Spades at school (banned for the trash-talking getting out of control), Jamal gets grounded, and Ant decides to play with new girl Shirley who can hold her own when it comes to cards. His father and older brother are both previous tournament winners, and Anthony wants to follow in their footsteps and continue the Joplin winning tradition. 5 – Sentence SummaryĪnthony Joplin (who goes by Ant) has turned ten and is finally eligible to play in the Spades tournament that has been part of his family tradition for years. You can find few more details about 5-4-3-2-1 here. Thank you to Edelweiss+ and the publisher Scholastic Press for a digital ARC of this title to read. ![]()
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