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62) The only game
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"When Mike pitches against the heavy-hitting Peach Street Mudders, the butterflies in his stomach feel more like dragons. The other team is good, and Mike starts to lose faith in his ability. Good thing he has a secret weapon in his dong, Harry. Can Harry help Mike pitch a no-hitter?"--Page [4] of cover.
66) High heat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private schooling begins to fall apart.
69) 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
Formats
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.
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Jimmy Hanks has always dreamed of playing Major League baseball, and when he is accepted into the Minors, he thinks his dream is finally coming true, but he soon learns that it will take more determination and hard work than he anticipated.
Author
Series
Billy Baggs novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.
72) Skinnybones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along withthe school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
ason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why--as they hide secrets of their own.
Humming with the energy of a...
75) I Got It!
Author
Description
In this wordless picture book, a young outfielder imagines all the terrifying ways he might not catch the baseball, and one way that he can.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
John had it all until his world was shattered when his wife and son are killed. But soon he is asked to manage his old Little League Baseball Team and he reluctantly accepts. During the tryouts, he meets a hopelessly uncoordinated little boy named Timothy.
Author
Series
Shakespeare bats cleanup volume 1
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 5
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Joe Stoshack's dad ends up in the hospital after a car accident , he has tow words he has to say to his son,: Mickey Mantle. For Stosh has a special power with a baseball card in hand, he can travel back in time. And his dad has a rare card - Mantle's valuable 1951 rookie card. "I've been thinking about it for a long time. Go back to 1951. You;'re the only one who can do it," Dad whispers. That night Stosh grips the card and prepares for another...
79) Soar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
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.