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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.
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Matt Christopher sports fiction volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Sylvester Coddmyer III is having a dismal baseball season until he takes advice from a mysterious ex-ballplayer named Cheeko and starts to play more aggressively.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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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...
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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.
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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.
10) Southpaw
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Winning season volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
After moving to New Jersey following his parents' divorce, Jimmy Fleming tries out for the seventh-grade baseball team while also trying to cope with his new life and dealing with his overly-competitive father.
12) The batboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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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...
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Two young boys on opposite sides of the world--one in America and the other in Japan--both have a fun day of baseball planned. Explores the similarities and differences in the way Americans and Japanese celebrate baseball.
14) Heat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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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.
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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...
17) Safe at Second
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Paulie Lockwood's best friend Todd Bannister is destined for the major leagues until a line drive to the head causes him to lose an eye and they both must find a new future for themselves.
18) Hard hit
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A rising high school baseball star faces his most difficult challenge when his father is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
19) Safe at Home
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Comeback kids volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Playing baseball was the one thing that made twelve-year-old Nick Crandall feel at home until he found acceptance with adoptive parents, but he faces a new struggle to fit in when he becomes the first seventh-grader ever to make the varsity baseball team.
20) Calico Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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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.