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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a visit to the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley field, cousins Mike and Kate investigate why someone has been tampering with the famous ivy vines growing on the outfield walls. Includes historical note.
5) Heroine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Mickey Catalan is no stranger to pain, emotional or physical. When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While covering baseball's World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Boston Red Sox, teenage sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol investigate a rookie pitcher whose evasive answers during an interview reveal more than a few contradictions in his life story.
7) 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...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Mike and Kate must solve a mystery during a World Series between the Cubs and the Red Sox when someone starts ruining equipment, getting players in trouble, and even stirring up an old baseball curse.
Author
Series
Milo and Jazz mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
Detectives-in-training Milo and Jazz join forces to tackle their first big case--finding out who stole the lucky socks from the high school baseball team's star pitcher.
Author
Series
Mickey Rawlings mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
It's 1920, and perennial 25th man Mickey Rawlings has found a spot on the Detroit roster with a .250 average and 20 stolen bases. Unfortunately that doesn't exempt him from being put in a lineup for murder.
11) The Astro outlaw
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting Houston, Texas, Mike and Kate tour the Johnson Space Center with an astronaut in the morning and at the Houston Astros' ball game that evening, the cousins search for the person who steals the astronaut's moonrock when he arrives at the stadium to sign autographs.
Author
Series
Ballpark mysteries. Main series volume 18
(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 18
Ballpark Mystery
(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 18
Ballpark Mystery
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When cousins Mike and Kate discover that the bat and ball that Hank Aaron used to hit his 715th home run have gone missing from the Atlanta Braves ballpark, apparently by someone who wants the Braves' manager fired--Mike and Kate are determined to solve the mystery and get the stolen artifacts back.
Author
Series
Mickey Rawlings mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
A historical mystery with "first-rate wartime Chicago atmosphere" and starring a ballplayer who "turns double plays and solves murders with equal grace" (Publishers Weekly).
While the nation wages war against Germany in 1918, utility infielder Mickey Rawlings has been traded to the North Side of Chicago. He's batting a career high (a respectable .274) and the Cubs are in first place. For the first time in a...
While the nation wages war against Germany in 1918, utility infielder Mickey Rawlings has been traded to the North Side of Chicago. He's batting a career high (a respectable .274) and the Cubs are in first place. For the first time in a...
Author
Series
Ballpark mysteries. Main series volume 13
(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 13
Ballpark Mystery
(David Andrew),Ballpark mysteries volume 13
Ballpark Mystery
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The president's brother is a catcher on the Nationals baseball team, and someone is stealing his equipment! Can Mike and Kate help the commander in chief catch a criminal?"--
17) Off base
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jayden is only one stolen base away from the school record, when he is suddenly kicked off the team, accused of cheating on a math test, and the "proof" is found in his locker. Apparently someone is trying to prevent him from setting the record by framing him, and he enlists the help of Lindsey, the school reporter, to gather clues and figure out which of his teammates has it in for him--and do it before the final game"--Title verso page.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After his unspectacular professional baseball career ends with a knee injury in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny Earl gets busted for selling cocaine. After serving seven years in prison, all he wants to do is return to his hometown of Steubenville, retrieve the drug money he stashed before he went to jail, and start a new life where no one has ever heard of Johnny Earl. However, before he can leave town with his money, Johnny is picked up for questioning in...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and even among local artisans, athletes, and marching bands, Hannah attracts fans of her own while serving lip-smacking pink lemonade desserts. But the mood sours when a body turns up, leading revelers to wonder if the festivities mark both the longest day of the year and the deadliest. A retired professional MLB player has met a terrifying end--and, considering the rumors swirling about...
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Language
English
Description
On a beautiful October morning in rural Maine, a homicide investigator from the state police pulls into the hard-luck town of Copper Falls. The local junkyard is burning, and the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is dead--with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found. As scandal ripples through the community, Detective Ian Bird's inquiries unexpectedly lead him away from small-town Maine to a swank city townhouse several hours south. Adrienne Richards,...
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