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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A biography of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American player in major league baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, discussing his family, college and military years, athletic abilities, career in the Negro Leagues, move to the majors, and activism on behalf of African-Americans.
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Series
Legends volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Presents a history of America's pastime that discusses many of its most notable players, teams, rivalries, and moments, from Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier to the home run race between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.
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Willie Mays is arguably the greatest player in baseball history, still revered for the passion he brought to the game. He began as a teenager in the Negro Leagues, became a cult hero in New York, and was the headliner in Major League Baseball's bold expansion to California. With 3,283 hits, 660 home runs, and 338 stolen bases, he was a blend of power, speed, and stylistic bravado that enraptured fans for more than two decades. Now, in the first biography...
7) Calico Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
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cp2008
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Johnny Appleseed is the man who sprinkled apple seeds, planted trees and told stories to children across the Midwest.
In Martin's big words, using his quotes, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comes to life in the biography about beliefs and dreams and following one's heart.
In Players in pigtails, a brave girl's love of baseball is celebrated as she works to become a player in the first All American girls professional baseball league.
This land is your...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Before he is known as the Babe, George Herman Ruth is just a boy who lives in Baltimore and gets into a lot of trouble. But when he turns seven, his father brings him to the gates of Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys, and his life is changed forever. At Saint Mary's, he's expected to study hard and follow a lot of rules. But there is one good thing about Saint Mary's: almost every day, George gets to play baseball. Here, under the watchful eye...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A lavishly illustrated edition of the famous poem, which was first published in 1888. This edition presents it as if found in a vintage scrapbook, complete with fictional news clippings and advertisements about baseball's early days.
11) The only game
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Home team novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball and only Cassie, star of the girls' softball team, seems to understand.
12) One perfect lie
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
13) The Natural
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Now an American baseball hero and a winner after a dark period, Roy finds the woman he thought he had lost. But he is up against corrupters, seducers, and glory destroyers. And he has to win the toughest game of his life.
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"The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and even among local artisans, athletes, and marching bands, Hannah attracts fans of her own while serving lip-smacking pink lemonade desserts. But the mood sours when a body turns up, leadingrevelers to wonder if the festivities mark both the longest day of the year and the deadliest... A retired professional MLB player has met a terrifying end--and, considering the rumors swirling about...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"Antes de que Pedro Mart©Ưnez fuese elegido al Salon de la fama del B©♭isbol, antes de que hiciera posible que los Medias Rojas ganaran la Serie Mundial, antes de que fuera seleccionado ocho veces para formar parte del equipo recibiera el Premio Cy Young tres veces, Pedro era un ni©ło que naci©đ en Manoguayabo, un peque©ło pueblo de la Rep©ðblica Dominicana. Pedro amaba el b©♭isbol m©Łs que nada en el mundo, y Ram©đn, su hermano...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
18) Babe Ruth
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Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A simple biography of one of the best known figures in the history of baseball, home-run hitter Babe Ruth.
19) Shoeless Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A dreamer builds a baseball diamond amid the Iowa cornfields and waits for the outstanding, but dead, baseball players of the past to show up for a very special game.
20) Mike Trout
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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The story of the Los Angeles Angels Rookie of the Year and MVP award-winning hitter.