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Author
Publisher
Cricket
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1919, fifteen-year-old Hank escapes an abusive father and goes looking for a chance to become a baseball player, accompanied by a man who calls himself Chief Sunrise and claims to be a full-blooded Seminole.
8) Free radical
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In Fairbanks, Alaska, in the middle of the summer Little League baseball season, fifteen-year-old Luke is stunned when his mother confesses that she is wanted by the FBI for her role in the death of a student during an anti-Vietnam War protest thirty years ago.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While covering baseball's World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Boston Red Sox, teenage sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol investigate a rookie pitcher whose evasive answers during an interview reveal more than a few contradictions in his life story.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.