The batboy
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English
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure:
940L
Description
It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father.There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop--once the most popular player in baseball before he was banned for using steroids. Now he is making his comeback. And an unlikely friendship slowly develops between this man in need of a family and this boy in need of a father. Mike Lupica, king of the sports novel, delivers his most powerful and kid-friendly to date.
Subjects
Subjects
Baseball
Baseball -- Fiction
Baseball -- Juvenile fiction
Bat boys
Bat boys -- Fiction
Bat boys -- Juvenile fiction
Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction
Detroit (Mich.) -- Juvenile fiction
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) -- Fiction
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) -- Juvenile fiction
Juvenile Fiction
Juvenile Literature
Mothers and sons
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
Baseball -- Fiction
Baseball -- Juvenile fiction
Bat boys
Bat boys -- Fiction
Bat boys -- Juvenile fiction
Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction
Detroit (Mich.) -- Juvenile fiction
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) -- Fiction
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) -- Juvenile fiction
Juvenile Fiction
Juvenile Literature
Mothers and sons
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
More Details
ISBN:
9780399250002
9781101159880
9780142417829
9780545340427
9781101159880
9780142417829
9780545340427
Accelerated Reader:
MG
Level 5.7, 8 Points
Level 5.7, 8 Points
Lexile measure:
940L
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Grouping Author | mike lupica |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-04-24 22:18:07PM |
Last Indexed | 2024-04-24 22:21:25PM |
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Baseball -- Fiction
Baseball -- Juvenile fiction
Bat boys -- Fiction
Bat boys -- Juvenile fiction
Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction
Detroit (Mich.) -- Juvenile fiction
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) -- Fiction
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) -- Juvenile fiction
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
Baseball -- Juvenile fiction
Bat boys -- Fiction
Bat boys -- Juvenile fiction
Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction
Detroit (Mich.) -- Juvenile fiction
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) -- Fiction
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team) -- Juvenile fiction
Mothers and sons -- Fiction
Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
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title_full
The Batboy
The batboy / Mike Lupica
The batboy / Mike Lupica
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Bat boys
Juvenile Fiction
Juvenile Literature
Mothers and sons
Bat boys
Juvenile Fiction
Juvenile Literature
Mothers and sons
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