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All-Time Great World Series (All Aboard Reading, Level 3 Grades 2-3)

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The thrilled-packed highlights from four of baseball's most exciting World Series are retold with all the heart-stopping action baseball fans will love. Full color illustrations and photos.

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Synopsis:
First-time readers will love this charming baseball story--told in rhyming verse about a perky little player. Easy-to-read text, exuberant illustrations, flash cards for every word in the story, and educational activities. Part of the My First Hello Reader! series.

Card catalog description :
A young player steps up to bat at a crucial point in a baseball game and succeeds in making the play that wins the game.

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Reading Level: Ages 4-8
School & Library Binding, 40 pages
Published by Greenwillow
Publication date: March 1, 1998
ISBN: 0688157556

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Synopsis:
Giving a real "behind the scenes" look at baseball, "Ballpark" takes readers to the world of the players, coaches, vendors, reporters, umpires, groundskeepers, and fans. Find out what really happens before--and after--the magic words, "Play Ball!" Full color

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From Kirkus Reviews , 03/01/93:
Drawing on his Japanese-American parents' experiences, a new author uses his narrator's struggle to become a better, and more accepted, ballplayer to portray a WW II internment camp. Quietly, ``Shorty'' describes his family's sudden removal to the camp in 1942, the grim surroundings, the restiveness his dad hopes to counter by building a baseball diamond. Materials are improvised (uniforms are made from mattress ticking), but the game soon thrives. Still, Shorty is usually an ``easy out'' until anger at the perpetually watching guard inspires him to hit a homer-- whereupon he sees the guard give him thumbs-up and a grin. But the real focus here is the camp and the prejudice that caused it. Back home after the war, Shorty finds friendly teammates but still hears racist taunts when he plays--and still uses the anger he feels to strengthen his resolve and do his best. Using scratchboard overlaid with oils, Lee (who grew up in Korea) provides splendidly evocative art whose somber tones are enriched with luminous color; he's a keen observer of baseball and the camp milieu. Fine debuts for author, illustrator, and publisher. (Picture book. 6-10) --1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Synopsis:
During World War II, a young Japanese-American boy and his family are sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Despondent in their desolate surroundings, father and son pull the camp together to build a baseball diamond and form a league.

Synopsis:
Despondent over the harsh conditions of a World War II internment camp, a young Japanese-American boy and his father build a baseball diamond and form a league so that the internees will have something to look forward to--even if only for nine innings. Full color.

Card catalog description :
A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.

The publisher, Lee & Low Books10/02/97:
Awards & Reviews
BASEBALL SAVED US was a winner of the Parents' Choice Award, the Washington State Governor's Writers Award,and named a "Pick of the Lists" selection by American Bookseller magazine, and "1993 Best Multicultural Title" by Publishrs Weekly.The New York Times writes: "[Mochizuki] capturs the confusion, wonder and terror of a small child in such stunning circumstances with convincing understatement."

The publisher, Lee & Low Books,09/05/97:
Awards
BASEBALL SAVED US was a Winner of the Parents' Choice Award and the Washington State Governor's Writers Award. It was named a "Pick of the Lists" selection by American Bookseller magazine and an "Editors' Choice" by the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Although eight-year-old Willy has AIDS, she wants to play baseball.

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Synopsis:
During World War II, a young Japanese-American boy and his family are sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Despondent in their desolate surroundings, father and son pull the camp together to build a baseball diamond and form a league.

Synopsis:
Despondent over the harsh conditions of a World War II internment camp, a young Japanese-American boy and his father build a baseball diamond and form a league so that the internees will have something to look forward to--even if only for nine innings. Full color.

Card catalog description :
A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.

The publisher, Lee & Low Books10/02/97:
Awards & Reviews
BASEBALL SAVED US was a winner of the Parents' Choice Award, the Washington State Governor's Writers Award,and named a "Pick of the Lists" selection by American Bookseller magazine, and "1993 Best Multicultural Title" by Publishrs Weekly.The New York Times writes: "[Mochizuki] capturs the confusion, wonder and terror of a small child in such stunning circumstances with convincing understatement."

The publisher, Lee & Low Books,09/05/97:
Awards
BASEBALL SAVED US was a Winner of the Parents' Choice Award and the Washington State Governor's Writers Award. It was named a "Pick of the Lists" selection by American Bookseller magazine and an "Editors' Choice" by the San Francisco Chronicle.

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From Horn Book:
When her mother decides she needs to learn more irlthings, a young baseball-loving girl is forced to take ballet lessons. Sure that her teammates will laugh at her if they find out, she is pleasantly surprised when the team arrives to cheer her on at her dreaded recital. Humorously illustrated with bright colored-pencil drawings, the easy-to-read story ably and lightly portrays the frustrations of a nonconformist child.

Synopsis:
A die-hard tomboy discovers team spirit at the barre when her mother forces her to drop her baseball mit and don a leotard for ballet class.

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A baseball-loving girl worries that the ballet class her mother forces her to take will ruin her reputation with the other members of her baseball team.

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From Booklist, 07/19/95:
Gr. 2-4. Kramer introduces young readers to five of baseball's greatest hitters--Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Hank Aaron. For each Hall of Famer, the author offers a biographical sketch and a chart of career statistics. He explains the players' strengths and weaknesses (both on and off the field) and provides play-by-play action for significant games. A final chapter briefly profiles six other batters. The illustrations, a mix of black-and-white and color photos and drawings, help to clarify the text and, combined with short chapters and large print, make for an attractive and nonthreatening layout. Similar to other beginning nonfiction titles in this Step into Reading series (for example, Kramer's To The Top! [1993]), this will be popular with baseball fans.

Synopsis:
A follow-up to Baseball's Greatest Pitchers profiles, and presents facts about, some of baseball's legendary batmen, from Hank Aaron to Ted Williams.

Synopsis:
A follow-up to Baseball's Greatest Pitchers profiles, and presents facts about, some of baseball's legendary batmen, from Hank Aaron to Ted Williams.

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