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Willie and the All-Stars
Floyd Cooper (2008), 32 pages
Illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Audience: K - 8th Grade
Willie lives on the North Side of Chicago with dreams of becoming a 'Major Leaguer'. That is until he is told that, 'It's all about the color of your skin and yours is the wrong color.' Willie's dream of playing with his good friend in the Major League is crushed. That is until he gets to go see a baseball game between the Negro Leaguers and the Major Leaguers where his dream of becoming a Major League baseball player is rekindled.
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Reviewed by: mb
Date read: 6/26/2009
ISBN-10: 0399233407
ISBN-13: 9780399233401
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Kelly's softball season is setting up to be a great one: she's a part of a talented team of long-time friends, and everyone is eager to start competing. Then life throws her a curve ball. She is transferred to another team, and instead of playing with her friends, she'll be playing on a rival team. Furthermore, her mom has started dating someone new, and he seems to think he can tell Kelly what to do. Then, a new pitch is introduced into the games. Kelly, formerly the best hitter in the league, can't hit the windmill pitch to save her life. Kelly feels like everything is falling apart. Can she pull it together and save her reputation as a player?
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 12/4/2009
ISBN-10: 0316145319
ISBN-13: 9780316145312
Reader Comments
Her Problems Were Just the Beginning...Commenter: Alan, grade 2
I liked this book because Kelly had big problems and turned them into small ones.
Vicky adores playing tennis. It's the only part of life where she has any talent. Still, she's not the best. So when Brenda, one of the best players on the 8th grade team, agrees to practice and play with her, it's a dream come true. This is Vicky's chance to make herself a winner. Then Reggie, Vicky's best friend, says she sees Brenda cheating during a game. Vicky is torn. Is Reggie just jealous? Or is there a darker side to Brenda?
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 12/3/2009
ISBN-10: 0395650178
ISBN-13: 9780395650172
Dixon Woods knows he has no shot at making the Wolfbay Wings Squirt A Team, the best hockey team in the area. His mother is a classic overachiever, though, so that's the team where he must win a place. At tryouts, Dixon sees that this team is not last year's team, the team that won fifty-four games and lost only two: the star players and their coach have abandoned the Wolfbay Wings for another club. With the hardest competition gone, Dixon makes the team. Will Dixon and the others fall flat without the star players, or can they succeed on their own? Woodsie is the first in the series about the Wolfbay Wings.
Book Series: Wolfbay Wings
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 12/31/2009
ISBN-10: 0060273496
ISBN-13: 9780060273491
Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery
David A. Adler (1999), 32 pages
Illustrated by Susanna Natti
Audience: 1st Grade - 3rd Grade
Meet Jennifer Jansen. Everyone calls her CAM because she can remember anything she sees,just like a camera. One day, Cam and her friends decide to play baseball in the park. But what happens when Amy hits a home run? Where did the ball go? Will Cam and her friends solve the mystery of the missing ball so they can continue playing their game? This Easy-to- Read chaper book is a perfect fit for the independent reader.
Book Series: Viking Easy-To-Read. Level 2
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Eloise at the Baseball Game by Lisa McClatchy
Reviewed by: mb
Date read: 7/10/2009
ISBN-10: 0670884812
ISBN-13: 9780670884810
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