Keeper vs War Game: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Soccer, Children's fiction, Fiction
Keeper
An extraordinary novel, winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Bronze Nestle Children's Book Prize.Paul Faustino, South America's top sports writer, sits opposite the man they call El Gato – the Cat – the world's…
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War Game
Based on a true account of a soccer game played between the German and English troops in no-man's land on Christmas Day in 1914 during World War I, this book tells the story of four young men who have recently enlisted…
The verdict
- Readers rate Keeper highest: Keeper 4.2 · War Game 3.9.
- War Game is the quickest read — about 1 hours vs 4 for Keeper.
- Keeper has the widest readership — 34 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Keeper | War Game | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 3.6 (4) | — |
| Google Books | 5.0 (2) | 5.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (34) | — |
Reception
| Keeper | War Game | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 34 | 1 |
| Editions | 14 | 8 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Wikipedia attention | 286 | 523 |
| Pages | 235 | 76 |