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1) The batboy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Alex Weakerman gets more than he bargains for when his grandfather passes away and names Alex the new manager of his hometown's scrappy independent-league baseball team.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
6) Grand slam
Author
Series
Baseball genius volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jalen DeLuca can analyze and predict almost exactly what a pitcher is going to pitch, but without the statistics he has on the pro players, Jalen finds success to be extremely challenging, especially with all the extra drama of his mom coming back into his life.
7) Play ball!
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
218 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old cousins who are closer than most brothers, catcher Liam McCarthy and pitcher Carter Jones grew up playing baseball together. Now, their team is on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: the Little League Baseball World Series. To reach the title match, however, they must first beat their number one rivals from Southern California. Little do they know that the game will prove to be just the first challenge they'll face...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
165 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although fifth-grader Ty Cutter is named after baseball great Ty Cobb, he is the worst player on the Brewer's team--which happens to be coached by his overly-competitive father.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Josh looks forward to facing a true rival in the Baseball Hall of Fame tournament, but first he and his friends Jaden and Benji put themselves at great risk trying to expose the truth about a conspiracy to bribe the head umpire.
11) Wind up
Author
Series
Contract volume 8
Publisher
Jeter Children's, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As Derek and his team tackle playoffs, everyone deals with the pressure in different ways. And practice gets intense! One of Derek's teammates, Avery, starts being especially hard on herself. She isn't even enjoying the game anymore. Can Derek and the rest of the team pull her out of her funk?"--
12) Switch-hitter
Author
Series
Contract volume 9
Publisher
Jeter Children's, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
147 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventh grader Derek Jeter, distracted with responsibilites of playing both basketball and baseball, finds himself on the bench with an injury and he must learn how to be a team player from the dugout and understand the importance of taking care of his body.
13) Plunked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
197 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The trip to Chicago for Griffith, Ruby, and Graham becomes an adventure in itself after they realize their Uncle Owen has gone missing and the Chancellor has set his sights on the money the Travelin' Nine have been trying to raise.
15) Strike zone
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick Garca̕ 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
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Lupe necesita una A en todas las clases para conocer a su lanzador favorito, Fu Li Hernández, un mexi-chino como ella. Qué pasa cuando el baile de country llega al gimnasio? Lupe no se quedará con los brazos cruzados."--
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After researching Glenn Burke, the first major league baseball player to come out as gay, sixth-grader Silas Wade slowly comes out to his best friend Zoey, then his coach, with unexpected consequences.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 2004, twelve-year-old Oscar Egg is sent to live with his father in a strange netherworld under Boston's Fenway Park, where he joins the fairies, pooka, banshee, and other beings that are trapped there, waiting for someone to break the eighty-six-year-old curse that has prevented the Boston Red Sox from winning a World Series.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
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