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Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," twelve-year-olds Trish and Ben should be automatic friends because they both play baseball on a Little League team in Comity, Massachusetts, and they both love solving math puzzles, but obstacles stand in their way.
42) Blockade Billy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retired third-base coach George 'Granny' Grantham chronicles the story of Billy Blakely, a catcher called up from Iowa to play for the New Jersey Titans in the spring of 1957. A powerful hitter and passionate catcher, Blockade Billy becomes notorious for drawing blood out of runners who collide with him at home plate. However, Billy holds a sinister secret, one that causes baseball officials to remove his name from the record books.
43) Hidden truths
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Dani and Eric have been best friends since Dani moved next door in second grade -- until one summer when everything changes.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Alta Weiss, a young woman who knows from an early age that she loves baseball, finds a way to show that she can play, even though she is a girl.
45) The best bat
Author
Series
Little Rhino volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A new chapter book series from Major League Baseball's 2006 National League MVP, Ryan Howard. Little Rhino's baseball season is in full swing! Grandpa James even buys Rhino a new bat as a reward for keeping up with all of his schoolwork. But, after practice, Rhino's bat goes missing! With a big game coming up, will Rhino be able to find his bat in time to help his team?
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The students from Pokémon School can't wait to play Pokémon Base with the famous sports star Oluolu and his partner, Snorlax, but when Team Rocket tries to get in on the game, the play turns foul.
47) Batter up Wombat
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An Australian wombat joins the Champs baseball team, and even though he is disastrously ignorant about the game, his innate talents save everyone when a tornado suddenly strikes.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Seventh graders Sammy and Matty are the Putterman twins—the perfect team of two. But Matty has a secret he’s not ready to share with his family yet, and he suddenly quits baseball and stops talking to his sister. With their twin telepathy broken, Sammy doesn’t know what to do without her teammate. Becky Putterman is sick of her family only cheering for her cousins, Sammy and Matty. They all used to be friends, but since everything became about...
49) No fear!
Author
Series
King of the bench volume 1
Publisher
HarperColllins
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Steve is King of the Bench. No brag. It{u2019}s just a fact. But this year, Steve and his friends are excited to try out for the Spiro T. Agnew Middle School baseball team. The only problem is, after watching another player get beaned by a fastball, Steve has developed a serious case of bean-o-phobia{u2014}the fear of getting hit by a pitch. If Steve ever wants to get off the bench and get in the game, he{u2019}s going to have to muster up some courage,...
50) Perfect game
Author
Series
Little league volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Now playing on different teams, twelve-year-old cousins--and best friends--Carter and Liam must compete against each other at the Little League World Series.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Here are his notorious First Nation narratives of indigenous Canadians, and a literary homage to J. D. Salinger. Alongside the "real" story of the 1951 Giants and the afterlife of Roberto Clemente, are the legends of a pirated radio station and a hockey game rigged by tribal magic.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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...
54) Baseball blues
Author
Series
Alien next door volume 5
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Zeke uses his powers to become a superstar on the youth baseball team, ignoring Harris's concern that this is cheating, their friendship is in trouble.
56) Sayonara slam
Author
Series
Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
""Hirahara has a keen eye for the telling detail and an assured sense of character." -Los Angeles Times At Dodger Stadium it's Japan vs. Korea in the World Baseball Classic, but before the first pitch is thrown, Mas Arai finds himself in the middle of a murder. Mysteries layer atop mysteries in this sixth in the award-winning series featuring the most unlikely of sleuths, an aging, widowed, not-exactly-communicative gardener from Altadena, California....
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class.
58) The hero two doors down: based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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.
59) Trophy night
Author
Series
Little Rhino volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Mustangs have had an incredible year, and a lot of that has to do with Rhino's teamwork and leadership. When Rhino hears about the end-of-the-season awards dinner, he wonders if he'll win one of the trophies.
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