John H Ritter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life.
4) Fenway fever
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Twelve-year-old Alfredo "Stats" Pagano and Boston Red Sox pitcher Billee Orbitt work together to break a potential curse at Fenway Park.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings. Prequel to: The boy who saved baseball.
6) Stargirl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Leo se siente tan fascinado como intimidado por Stargirl, la nueva de la escuela, una chica especial e inmune a las duras críticas del resto y que además no hace más que llamar la atención, algo que jamás haría él. In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.