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Series
Joey Pigza books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy name Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truck-load of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks...
5) The batboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father. There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop?once the most popular player...
6) Heat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
7) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
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Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When the Grizzlies' first baseman is sidelined two days before the playoffs, catcher Manny Griffin and second baseman Stu Fletcher take it upon themselves to help his replacement become a better player.Should Manny keep his promise....even if it puts his friend in danger?
10) Summerland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Digger wants to play baseball with his friends. But he isn't allowed to go out until he's cleaned his room. Digger starts cleaning at top speed, but the faster he moves the messier his room gets. His big tail and big feet aren't helping! Will Digger win the race to tidy his room and get to the game on time?"--Publisher's statement on Amazon.com.
15) The only game
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Series
Home team novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball and only Cassie, star of the girls' softball team, seems to understand.
16) The hero two doors down: based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
17) Soar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
18) Jack at bat
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jack the mischievous rabbit serves as bat boy and Rex the dog helps in left field during a baseball game between the Lady City Ladies and the Big City Brats.
19) The proposal
Author
Series
Wedding dates volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
"When someone asks you to spend your life with him, it shouldn't come as a surprise--or happen in front of 45,000 people. When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. Saying no isn't the hard part--they've only been dating for five months, and he can't even spell her name correctly. The hard part is having to face a stadium full...
20) Edward's eyes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Edward is one of a large and close family that loves baseball, music, books, and each other, and when he unexpectedly dies and his parents donate his organs, his wonderful eyes go to a perfect recipient.