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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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. So when...
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My weirder-est school volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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?
3) Fast pitch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Shenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending-and family-name-ruining-crime may have been a setup. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family's past--and fast--before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever."--
5) Double play
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Baseball genius volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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When New York Yankee James "JY" Yager tries to show that he can still hit in the majors without the help of twelve-year-old Jalen's baseball genius, Jalen focuses on his own baseball career as he tries to carve out a spot with the Rockton Rockets.
6) Force out
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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"When Joey has to compete with his best friend, Zach, for a single spot on an elite baseball team, he is forced to decide how far he is willing to go to win"--
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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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For as long as he can remember, Curtis Pith has been obsessed with becoming a chef like Lucas Taylor, host of Super Chef. And Curtis has a secret: Taylor is actually his long-absent father. So when Taylor announces a kids-only season of Super Chef, Curtis finally sees his chance to meet his dad. But after Curtis wins a spot in the competition and arrives in New York to film the show, nothing goes as smoothly as he expected. It's all riding on the...
10) I got it!
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In this wordless picture book, a young outfielder imagines all the terrifying ways he might not catch the baseball, and one way that he can.
11) Baseball genius
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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"--
12) Hit & miss
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Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Young Derek Jeter's friendship with a new student puts him at odds with his friends and seems to be hurting his baseball swing, plus he gets in trouble for confronting a student who is bullying his sister, in violation of the contract with his parents.
14) Baseball blowup
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Malcolm loves baseball and science, but his teammates are not always pleased with the ideas he comes up with--until he uses science to come up with a winning pitch, the knuckleball.
17) Strike zone
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Philomel Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick García dreams of winning MVP of his summer baseball league, of finding a cure for his sister, of meeting his hero, Yankee pitcher Michael Arroyo, and of no longer living in fear of the government and ICE agents.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
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Twelve-year-old Casey lives with his father and grandfather at their family-run umpire school, and as he deals with middle school and his mother's unwelcome return, he stumbles on a sensational story that has him questioning his dream of becoming a journalist.
19) Pinch hit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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"When movie star Trevor and regular Little League player Sam discover that they are identical twins who were separated at birth, they decide to trade places for a while so that Sam can live the Hollywood life and Trevor can play baseball"--
20) New kid
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Series
New kids novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
"A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--
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