For most kids, the changing of the football season doesn’t mean a change in lifestyle. It did for Kerry Madden-Lunsford.

“My dad was a college football coach,” Madden-Lunsford said. “My life was uprooted nearly every year.”

Madden-Lunsford will be at Big Table Books Wednesday, Oct. 30 for a reading of her book, “Offsides.”

Not surprisingly, the constant moving was difficult for the author. But Madden-Lunsford dealt with the sorrow by escaping into the books she was constantly reading.

“I would imagine myself as Helen Keller or Anne Frank, wondering what their lives were like,” Madden-Lunsford said.

Her imagination would eventually pay off in short stories and plays. Years later, Madden-Lunsford decided to start a journal.

“I would sit down to write my thoughts, and all these memories of football kept coming up,” Madden-Lunsford said.

And “Offsides” was born. It combines the perception of an intelligent girl with play-by-plays of football strategies. The strategies came from her father’s mind, matching the action and growth in each chapter.

“Now I can look back and finally see the good of it all,” Madden-Lunsford said. “All the moving made me adaptable. And I love to travel.”

Madden-Lunsford will be at Big Table Books Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.