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1) Play ball!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
280L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pete the Cat is ready to play baseball! Pete's team, the Rocks, is playing the Rolls. But when the game doesn't go Pete's way, what will Pete do?"-- From the Publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Description
"When Marvin moves to a new neighborhood, he wants nothing more than to join the local baseball team. After all, he loves playing baseball more than anything, and with his lucky baseball bat in hand, what could go wrong? But when that same lucky bat goes missing, Marvin completely loses his ability to play ball. Without it, he can't see how he'll ever live up to his baseball heroes. But even though he's lost his talent, Marvin might just find something...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mike pitches against the heavy-hitting Peach Street Mudders, the butterflies in his stomach feel more like dragons. The other team is good, and Mike starts to lose faith in his ability. Good thing he has a secret weapon in his dog, Harry. Can Harry help Mike pitch a no-hitter?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
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.
5) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
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.
10) Baseball pals
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Description
Jimmie, captain of the Planets, makes himself pitcher, although the team wants Paul to pitch. Jimmie pitches poorly and Paul joins another team. Even Jimmie's kid brother doesn't like his brother's behavior. With the first game approaching, Jimmie must do something for the team and for himself.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why--as they hide secrets of their own. Humming with the energy of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
360L
Language
English
Description
Arthur really wants to play baseball on the Little League team with his friends, but when Francine teases him because he cannot seem to catch a ball, he worries that his skills are never going to be good enough.
15) Shoeless Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Ray Kinsella's fanatic love of baseball drives him to build a baseball stadium in his corn field and kidnap the author, J.D. Salinger, and bring him to a baseball game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Jody is a catcher who is afraid to throw the ball hard, and after getting beaned by the ball one day when he is at bat, he is also afraid of a pitched ball, and must struggle to overcome his fears and humiliation.
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Determined to play in the Little League World Series, twelve-year-old Josh struggles to concentrate on his game and be the team's leader while also trying to cope with his parents' impending divorce.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 122
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
The Aldens help out at a minor league stadium and investigate when it appears someone in the ballpark is stealing the home team pitcher's signals and relaying them to the batters of the other team.
20) Wish: a novel
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
James McConnell's one wish is that his nine-year-old son will finally be healthy enough to play a game of catch. Then he and his wife, Emily, receive news they've dreaded: Aaron's cancer has relapsed. As the family steels themselves for a draining treatment regimen in yet another hospital, Aaron receives the gift of a lifetime--a personal visit from one of his favorite professional baseball players--and the chance to make a bold request, his wish:...
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