Last Man's Reward by David Patneaude

Reviewed by Mac

M.A.P. published by Albert and Company, Mac, spring 2008 By David Patneaude
1996, 192pp.
If you and your friends found a baseball card worth four thousand dollars and couldn’t agree on what to do with it, how would you decide who gets it? In Everett WA, Albert, Yuno, Small dog, Princess (Actually is a boy) and Nick have this problem. Some of them want to sell it; others want to keep it, so one of them comes up with an idea out of a newspaper.

The last man at their apartment gets his reward. After the agreement is made, the card is hidden in an old abandoned mine and buried under the vow they made. Half way through the “last man standing” test, Albert suddenly realizes that there is someone out there that needs the $4000 dollars more then he does, so he sets out to help that person out and learns that being kind to others is the greatest reward of all.

This adventure book is mostly mild but has its share of thrills. I think that this book was made too show that a good deed is its own reward, even if there’s money involved. This is a good book for 4-6 grade readers with a mild taste for thrills.