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1) Heat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps in other aspects of her life, as well.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once again the Hatford brothers and the Malloy sisters find themselves pitted against each other when embarrassing pictures of the boys turn up in the girls' basement, and the boys try to figure out how to get them back.
Author
Series
Black lagoon adventures volume 10
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hubie, who desperately wants to make the little league team in Spring, receives a new mitt from his mom and practices hard, but when he becomes sick, his big opportunity might escape him.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Anderson is the star pitcher on his Little League team of eleven-and-twelve-year-olds, and his team is in the running for the Little League World Series, but this summer he is finding it hard to concentrate on baseball because his sister has been diagnosed with leukemia, and as the summer progresses she seems to be getting worse.
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
10) Grand slam
Author
Series
Scrappers volume 9
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Just as Thurlow feels that he may be able to lead the Scrappers single-handedly to the season championship, an injury sidelines him and threatens to take away their victory.
11) Batter up Wombat
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An Australian wombat joins the Champs baseball team, and even though he is disastrously ignorant about the game, his innate talents save everyone when a tornado suddenly strikes.
12) Curveball
Author
Series
Winning season volume 9
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grade baseball player Eddie Ventura listens to the sports announcer's voice in his head and gets into trouble when he writes a series of articles for the school paper.
13) Holding at third
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Matt's older brother Tom moves to a different hospital to receive a "treatment of last resort" for his cancer, Matt tries to adjust to a new home and school, a new baseball team, and his feelings about his brother.
Author
Series
Alien next door volume 5
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Zeke uses his powers to become a superstar on the youth baseball team, ignoring Harris's concern that this is cheating, their friendship is in trouble.
15) Southpaw
Author
Series
Winning season volume 6
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After moving to New Jersey following his parents' divorce, Jimmy Fleming tries out for the seventh-grade baseball team while also trying cope with his new life and dealing with his overly-competitive father.
Author
Series
Aurora County trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
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.
19) Boy toy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molestor's release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth.
20) Hothead: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Connor Sullivan, All-Star third baseman on his Babe Ruth League team, has a terrible temper and problems at home, but when the sports editor of the school paper threatens to publish an embarrassing story about his tantrums, Connor must make a change.
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