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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.
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.
3) Shoeless Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Formats
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: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Barry McGee, hit-away batter for the Peach Street Mudders, enjoys winning so much that he has a tendency to bend the rules--until the dirty tactics of the pitcher on a rival team give him a new perspective on sports ethics.
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Language
English
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Description
Bearing W.P. Kinsella's trademark combination of "sweet-natured prose and a richly imagined world" (Philadelphia Inquirer), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world that the indomitable Chicago Cubs traveled to Iowa in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against an amateur league, the Iowa Baseball Confederacy. But a simple game somehow turned into a titanic battle of more...
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Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Annie Lucas is too young to remember her dad's glory days as a pitcher for the Yankees. So when her father is offered a coaching position with the Kansas City Royals, Annie is intrigued to see the baseball side of her dad. Of course, knowing he'll be a mentor to hot young rookie pitcher, Jason Brody, certainly makes it more enticing. After an awkward first meeting with "Brody" involving very little clothing and a much-too-personal...
8) Satch & me
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.
Author
Series
Hundred Oaks volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She's on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she's made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother's scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her. Now Parker wants a new life. So she quits softball. Drops twenty pounds. And she figures why kiss one guy when she can kiss three. Or four. Why limit herself to high school boys when...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh grader and math wiz Trish plans to play on the baseball team, but fellow math wiz Ben thinks baseball is a torture he would like to avoid--but now the two, who competed against each other in a math tournament, find themselves on the same baseball team. Includes recipes and math facts.
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.
15) Dean Duffy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Dean, a former high school baseball star whose future has been ruined by a batting slump and a bad arm, is offered a college baseball scholarship and finds himself uncertain of whether to take it.
Author
Series
My weirder-est school volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A.J.'s class is going head-to-head against Dirk School in a charity softball game. The losing team must clean the winning school's toilet with a toothbrush! Mr. Ott, retired baseball pro, intends to lead Ella Mentry School to victory, but will his weird tactics actually make the team lose?
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy . . . like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much . . . like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her....
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