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6) Balletball
Author
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nini loves ballet, not sports, so when her mother signs her up to play baseball she sulks until the coach explains how baseball and ballet can go together--and when a timely plié in the outfield saves the game she realizes that "balletball" is really not so bad after all.
7) The boys
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A shy boy, seeking the courage to play baseball with the other children in a park, is coaxed out of his shell by some "old timers" sitting nearby who, in turn, discover they are still in the game.
8) Play ball!
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a story of right-handed Jorge Posada being coached by his father to bat left-handed, and how it leads right to the major leagues.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
On April 15, 1947, Matt Romano and his father watch the Brooklyn Dodgers season-opener, during which Jackie Robinson, a twenty-eight-year-old rookie, breaks the "color line" that had kept black men out of Major League baseball. Includes facts about Jackie Robinson's life and career.
10) I got it!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this wordless picture book, a young outfielder imagines all the terrifying ways he might not catch the baseball, and one way that he can.
11) Dino-baseball
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meat-eating dinosaurs face plant-eating dinosaurs in a baseball game.
14) Slugger
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Language
English
Description
Ollie was a slug who loved everything about baseball. More than anything in the world, he wanted to make the team. Trouble was, he couldn't hold a bat. He wasn't much of a pitcher, either. And he was pretty slow at running the bases. But Ollie was one determined slug...and finally he got his big chance.
17) The Babe & I
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
330L
Language
English
Description
While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.
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