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4) Batter up!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caleb, who has always used a wood bat, has to use an aluminum bat and struggles to hit the ball.
6) Play ball!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a story about the childhood of New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada, including being coached by his father to bat left-handed and how it leads right to the major leagues.
7) Jackie's bat
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Joey, the batboy for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, learns a hard lesson about respect for people of different races after Jackie Robinson joins the team.
8) The batboy
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Rotten Ralph, the cat, fails to win a spot on a baseball team with his friend Sarah, he becomes the "cat boy" instead, still dreaming of proving himself the superstar he imagines himself to be.
10) Baseball pals
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1997
Language
English
Description
Presents Jimmie Todd as the captain of his little league baseball team.
11) Safe at home
Author
Publisher
Walden Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nick Crandall's new foster parents are both professors who know nothing about sports, and his new teammates feel he is too young to play varsity baseball; but Nick is out to prove that he belongs not only to his team, but to his parents as well.
Author
Series
(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While visiting New York's Yankee Stadium with Kate's mother, cousins Mike and Kate decide to investigate the rumor that the ghost of Babe Ruth is haunting the stadium.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.
14) Free baseball
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Felix becomes a bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder.
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