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41) Plunked
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Sixth-grader Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch, and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves.
42) Wish
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"A father wishes his 9-year-old son would be well enough to play catch. The son wishes to see his father play in a major league baseball game. They all pray for a successful bone marrow transplant before cancer ends the boy's life, but first, they need to find a donor"--
44) Baseball buzz
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Jackson loves baseball, but a bee in the outfield causes him to miss a fly ball, and the game is stopped until the bee finally departs.
45) Beanball
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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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.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Last summer, Quinnen was the star pitcher of her baseball team, the Panthers. They were headed for the championship, and her loudest supporter at every game was her best friend and older sister, Haley. This summer, everything is different.
48) Home run
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Series
Baseball great novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
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Josh's life has just fallen apart. His father will no longer be coaching the travel baseball team and is moving to Florida, forcing his mom and little sister to move into a small apartment on the wrong side of town. To make matters worse, the new coach of the travel team is an unforgiving drill sergeant. But then Benji tells Josh of a home-run derby in which the winner gets a brand-new house. All Josh has to do to qualify is hit twenty home runs during...
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Deeply affecting and wonderfully evocative of old New York, Snow in August is a brilliant fable for our time and all time-and another triumph for Pete Hamill.
Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague.
Snow in August is the story of that...
50) Baseball genius
Author
Series
Baseball genius volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
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"An average kid with an above average talent for predicting baseball pitches tries to help his favorite player out of a slump"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
52) Batting order
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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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?
53) Steal away home
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Owen Cross grew up with two loves: one a game, the other a girl. One of his loves ruined him. Now he's counting on the other to save him.
Owen Cross's father is a hard man, proud in his brokenness, who wants nothing more than for Owen to succeed where he failed. With his innate talents and his father's firm hand guiding him, Owen goes to college with dreams of the major leagues-and an emptiness full of a girl named Micky Dullahan.
Owen loved Micky...
54) 8-bit baseball
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Jared Richards is great at baseball video games, but when he loses a bet to his best friend Jared is forced to tryout for his school's baseball team--and finds out that playing the game for real is very different from virtual reality.
55) Play ball!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Pete the Cat has a mitt, a ball, and a bat and is ready to play baseball. Pete's team, the Rocks, is playing the Rolls. But when things don't go Pete's way, will he get upset?"--Back cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," twelve-year-olds Trish and Ben should be automatic friends because they both play baseball on a Little League team in Comity, Massachusetts, and they both love solving math puzzles, but obstacles stand in their way.
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Sports agent Liz Darnell is in risk of losing her number one client, baseball pro Gavin Riley. When she offers herself as part of the bargain, he's more than ready ... but decides to throw a little curveball her way to see just how far she's willing to go to keep him as a client ...
59) Jack At Bat
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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The Lady and Rex have a baseball game against the Big City Brats. Jack is not allowed to swing the bat, so he is told to be the Bat Boy. That is, until the Lady Town Ladies and the Big City Brats are tied. It's up to Jack to hit a home run, but on the way to home plate he spots some snacks...
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Series
Baseball card adventures volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Joe travels back in time to 1944, he meets the Milwaukee Chicks, one of the only all-female professional baseball teams in the history of the game.
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