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1) Swindle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When Griffin Bing plans a spooky sleepvoer in a haunted house that's about to be demolishied, he isn't planning on making a fortune. But then he discovers something more valuable than gold: a rare Babe Ruth baseball card, hidden out fo view for many years. Griffin's on his way to a million dollars...until a mean collector named S. Wendell Palomino (a.k.a. Swindle) tricks him out of the card. Now Griffin must put together a team of friends (and one...
4) Cop out
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Two longtime NYPD partners on the trail of a stolen, rare, mint-condition baseball card find themselves up against a merciless, memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Jimmy is the veteran detective whose missing collectible is his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, and Paul is his 'partner-against-crime' whose preoccupation with his wife's alleged infidelity makes it hard for him to keep his eye on the ball.
5) Batter up!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on the disabled list and with his replacement hitting a winning streak, left-fielder Danny O'Brien wants one of batboy Chad's "magic" baseball cards to get back in the game.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 5
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
When Joe travels back in time to 1944, he meets the Milwaukee Chicks, one of the only all-female professional baseball teams in the history of the game.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Card by card-all 572 of the '59 Topps set-this book contemplates the lives and times of mid-20th century baseball. That season was in the heart of a period of turmoil: milestones in integration, franchise shifts to the West Coast, a potential rival league, the major leagues' expansion, and labor issues that included paying young prospects not to play. The cards help tell the players' stories, too. The slugger who had a date with Marilyn Monroe (no,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Joe Stoshack is beginning to think life can't get much worse. The thing he likes best in the whole world is baseball. He knows everything there is to know about the game...except how to hit home runs. His specialty seems to be striking out. But Joe's life is about to change in the most amazing way. . . When Joe gets a job cleaning old Miss Young's attic he's not too happy about it. The place is filled with tons of worthless trash, and he's only...
10) Jinxed!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chad is thrilled to be a batboy for the Pine City Porcupines, even though the team is not doing well, his fellow batboy is less than thrilled about the job, and his favorite player seems to be jinxed.
11) Zip it!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Pine City Porcupines' batboy Chad breaks an important unofficial rule of baseball: Do not talk to the starting pitcher when he has a perfect game going, the team may lose the game unless Chad can find a baseball card to help break the superstition.
14) The 823rd hit
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
To keep Teddy "Bear" Larrabee happy and slugging, Chad the bat boy has to figure out what a crabby fan would be willing to trade for Teddy's lucky homerun ball.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process. Joe Stoshack has really done it this time. When a pitcher insults his Polish heritage, Joe flings his bat and prompts an on-field brawl that ends in a two-team pileup. He's suspended from Little League...indefinitely. At school, his teacher assigns an oral report for Black History Month. The topic?...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In hopes of winning the valuable baseball card that he and his new friends have hidden in a remote cave outside Granite Falls, Washington, Andrew asks the gruff P.E. teacher at his middle school to help him become a long-jumper.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.
20) Jackie & Me
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
With more than 2 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures bring the greatest players in history to life!
Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoshack has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society. Unlike every other kid in his class, Joe has a special talent: with the help of old baseball cards, he can travel through time. So, for his report, Joe decides to go back
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