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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
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.
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
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.
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.
Author
Series
Danny's doodles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny is not sure what to make of Calvin Waffle, a quirky and smart new fourth grader, but when Danny convinces Calvin to use his brain power to help the baseball team, they both have a chance to become heroes.
11) Summerland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
The ferishers, little creatures who ensure perfect weather for Summerland, recruit Ethan Feld, one of history's worst baseball players, to help them in their struggle to save Summerland, and ultimately the world, from giants, goblins, and other legendary, terrible creatures.
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
Home run slugger Sylvester Coddmyer the Third has an amazing secret. For three seasons, he's been coached by men who look exactly like baseball legends: Babe Ruth, Eddie Cicotte, and Mickey Mantle. Are these men just impersonating famous ballplayers, as his friend Duane insists? Or are they from the "beyond," as Snooky Malone believes? The mystery deepens in this fourth title of the exciting Home Run Kid series when yet another character...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After they hear stories about their baseball field being haunted by the ghost of a boy who died there many years ago, twelve-year-old Nelson and his teammates start finding mysterious messages written in the dirt.
16) Batting order
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Matt Baker is the best all-rounder on his baseball team, but can he help Big Ben Roberson improve his hitting and stand up to his father?
Author
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...
19) Baseball great
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball, but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
Author
Language
English
Description
The friendship of a Jewish rabbi and a Catholic altar boy in 1940s Brooklyn. The rabbi, a Czech who fled the Nazis on the eve of World War II, teaches the boy Judaism while the boy, who is Irish, teaches the rabbi English and baseball. When anti-Semitic hoods attack the rabbi the boy goes to his defense.
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