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2) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
This story, based on the Cubs and Mets 1973 season follows the divergent paths of Joe Castle, a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and Warren Tracey, a hard-throwing Mets pitcher.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A collection of baseball stories, real and unreal. The title story is a romance between a player and a girl in whose family he is staying, in The Baseball Wolf a player becomes a werewolf, while in The Darkness Deep Inside, a player who returns from the dead finds he is unpopular because in dying he lost his aggressive spirit.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
In Brooklyn in the late 1940s, adolescent Michael Devlin is a dutiful son to his widowed mother and a conscientious altar boy at the parish church. One day, he meets Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a chance encounter that inaugurates a friendship with vast consequences, good and bad, for both of them. Michael lost his father in the war, and the rabbi, a recent immigrant to this country, lost his wife. The threads of their connection widen and strengthen as the...
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional...
Author
Series
Marc Brown Arthur chapter book volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Arthur worries that he won't be able to play little league baseball as well as all his friends and faces lots of teasing until someone discovers teamwork.
14) Zip it!
Author
Series
Topps league story volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Pine City Porcupines' batboy Chad breaks an important unofficial rule of baseball: Do not talk to the starting pitcher when he has a perfect game going, the team may lose the game unless Chad can find a baseball card to help break the superstition.
15) Mr. Zinger's hat
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Mr. Zinger's hat flies in and interrupts Leo's playing, the two of them construct a story as to how exactly the hat took off.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Daniel, Prince Wednesday, and Miss Elaina are playing at the park with Prince Tuesday. The group decides to play a game of animal ball, but Daniel can't seem to catch the ball. With some encouragement from Prince Tuesday, Daniel discovers that if he keeps trying, he will get better.
17) Swing
Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to find cool. Walt is convinced junior year is their year, and he has a plan to help them woo the girls of their dreams and become amazing athletes. Never mind that he and Noah failed to make the high school baseball team yet again, and Noah's love interest...
20) Play ball!
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old cousins who are closer than most brothers, catcher Liam McCarthy and pitcher Carter Jones grew up playing baseball together. Now, their team is on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: the Little League Baseball World Series. To reach the title match, however, they must first beat their number one rivals from Southern California. Little do they know that the game will prove to be just the first challenge they'll face...
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