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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps in other aspects of her life, as well.
2) Golden arm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
"Lazarus "Laz" Weathers has always been shy, and his issue with stuttering when he speaks hasn't helped. Stuck in a Seattle trailer park, Laz finds baseball helps him escape from the world of poverty and drugs. When he gets an opportunity to pitch for the rich kids across town, he...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Xavier's father returns to Boston after serving ten years in federal prison, tensions quickly mount and Xavier's anger explodes on the baseball field, making it less likely that he will achieve his dream of playing in the major leagues than that he will follow his father's path.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
5) Beanball
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Relates, from diverse points of view, events surrounding the critical injury of popular and talented high school athlete, Luke "Wizard" Wallace, when he is hit in the face by a fastball.
Author
Series
If only novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Theater girl Maddie Brooks falls for Jesse Morales, her new neighbor and star pitcher of the baseball team, but Maddie doesn't know if she is meant to be with someone who doesn't share her love of theater.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
High school freshman Ryan Walsh, a Chicago Cubs fan, meets Nick when they both skip school on opening day, and their blossoming relationship becomes difficult for Ryan when she discovers that Nick is seriously ill and she again feels the pain of losing her father five years earlier.
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