Fall 2025

Patrick Mahomes

MVP Quarterback Who Gives Back

From the Series Gateway Biographies

  • Interest Level: Grade 4 - Grade 8
  • Reading Level: Grade 5

Patrick Mahomes is the youngest quarterback in NFL history to win the Super Bowl MVP award. He has led the Kansas City Chiefs to the Super Bowl five times, winning three of those.

Mahomes grew up in Texas as the son of a professional baseball player. In his teenage years, he excelled in every sport he played, including basketball, baseball, and football. He was even drafted to play baseball right out of high school. But Mahomes chose football. After several years of college football, he was drafted to the Kansas City Chiefs, where he began making history. Follow Patrick Mahomes’s journey from athletically gifted youth to NFL Super Bowl champion.

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Interest Level Grade 4 - Grade 8
Reading Level Grade 5
Genre Social Studies
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Narrative Nonfiction, Biography
Copyright 2026
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Lerner Publications ™
Language English
Number of Pages 48
Publication Date 2025-08-01
Text Type Narrative Nonfiction
BISACS JNF007100, JNF054050
Dewey 796.332092 [B]
Dimensions 7 x 9
Lexile 1060
Guided Reading Level U
Features Bibliography/further reading, Index, Source notes, Teaching Guides, and Timeline

Author: J. G. Minyard

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Gateway Biographies

Discover the human side of newsworthy, historical, and pop culture figures, and learn about people leading key social movements or handling crises. Each biography in this easy-reading series is peppered with quotations and stories, accounts of successes and failures, and descriptions of… View available downloads →