This Kansas City 9-year-old's book helps kids understand football

Burkley Hoover has published her first book at the age of nine. Tilted “Here Comes Football: A Kids Guide To The Game,” it covers the history and mechanics of the sport and includes interviews with several professional players.
Nine-year-old Burkley Hoover has been immersed in the sport of football for most of her life. Her father, Justin Hoover, is the head coach of the Shawnee Mission East high school football team and owner of Spin It Quarterback Academy.

That immersion has given her a knowledge of the game that many people her age might lack. She says that knowledge gap is what gave her the idea for what would become a 44-page book.

“I wanted me and my friends to learn more about football,” she said on KCUR’s Up To Date. “A lot of them I can talk with about things, like what game happened, but some don't know much.”rr