Author: John Ritter
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613284448
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In 1921, 13-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left-handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father, that such a condition is evil and must be overcome
Author: John Ritter
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780698118409
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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When preacher's boy Luke Bledsoe steps on a baseball field, he discovers he has real pitching talent. For once, he can be proud of being left-handed. But Reverend Bledsoe believes that the left side is the side of Satan and the baseball field is the Devil's playground. Luke has spent his whole life trying to please his father. Will he choose to give up the game he's come to love-or turn his back on his family? An ALA Best Book for Young Adults 1999 IRA Children's Book Award A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book
Author: John Ritter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142402863
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Tom Gallagher is in a tight spot. The fate of the Dillontown team rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. If Tom's team loses, they lose their field too. But how can they possibly win? Just when everything seems hopeless, a mysterious boy named Cruz de la Cruz rides into town and claims to know the secret of hitting. Not to mention the secrets of Dante Del Gato, Dillontown's greatest hitter ever. Since he walked away from the game years ago, Del Gato hasn't spoken a word to anyone. But now he might be Tom's only hope for saving his hometown. From the award-winning author of Over the Wall and Choosing Up Sides comes this imaginative tale of one boy's struggle to preserve the spirit of the game he loves.
Author: John H. Ritter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399246647
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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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.
Author: John H. Ritter
Publisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606249720
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has a problem with anger, spends a summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out his feelings about the Vietnam war that took his grandfather's life.
Author: Ruma Chopra
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442205733
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Though scores of texts, films and stories have been told about the American Revolution from the perspectives of our Founding Fathers and their followers, comparatively little is known about those colonists who resisted the revolutionary movement, and tried desperately to preserve their nation’s ties to the British Empire. Choosing Sides: Loyalists in Revolutionary America shows us that America’s original colonies were not nearly as united behind the concept of forming free, independent states as our society’s collective memory would have us believe. There were, in fact, numerous colonists, slaves, and Native Americans who counted themselves among the Loyalists: those who never wanted to sever ties with the English crown and who viewed revolution as an unnatural and unlawful mistake. Too often overlooked, these men and women made valid and valuable arguments against the formation of the United States—both weighing the costs of revolution and the perilousness of existing without the Empire’s command— arguments that even hundreds of years into America’s existence were echoed and championed both within and beyond our borders. Colonists from commoners to clergymen had nuanced and complex reasons for wanting to remain under British control, and an awareness of these reasons and their origins paints a more historically accurate portrait of the American populous around the time of our country’s founding. This volume not only showcases Dr. Chopra’s comprehensive analysis of Loyalism and its arguments, but includes letters, legislation and even poems written by Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary War. Choosing Sides lays a detailed foundation of facts for its readers and provides them entry points to the debate surrounding the genesis of the United States. It is both a primary source and a touchstone for original interpretations and discussions.
Author: Declan Shalvey
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302494473
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Collects Civil War II: Choosing Sides #1-6. If you knew something bad was about to happen, how far would you go to stop it? The line is drawn as that question divides the Marvel Universe. And when a major loss sends shockwaves through the super-hero community, everyone will be forced to reconsider whether they chose the right side! Face these fateful decisions alongside Nick Fury, Night Thrasher, War Machine, Punisher, Kate Bishop, Jessica Jones, Colleen Wing and Tom Foster, a.k.a. Goliath! Friendships are shattered among the Avengers! Alpha Flight and the White Fox join the fray as the conflict goes global! And as the collateral damage mounts, somebody call Damage Control!
Author: John Ritter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101571985
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Happy 100th Birthday, Fenway Park! "Stats" Pagano may have been born with a heart defect, but he lives for three things: his family's hot dog stand right outside fabled Fenway Park, his beloved Red Sox, and any baseball statistic imaginable. When the family can no longer make ends meet with the hot dog stand, life becomes worrisome for Stats. Then the Sox go on a long losing streak and the team's ace pitcher--and Stats's idol--becomes convinced the famed Curse of the Bambino has returned. Stats just has to help . . . but how? As the Sox faithful sour on their team, Stats forms a plan that ultimately unifies an entire city and proves that true loyalty has a magic all its own. In honor of Fenway Park's 100th birthday, baseball novelist John H. Ritter delivers an inspiring tale for the sports fan in each of us, regardless of team allegiance.
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 148143862X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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River Heights is about to elect a new mayor, and every candidate will have to take a stance on crime. But Nancy’s choice, District Attorney Caroline Hill, apparently doesn’t have a leg to stand on. Small-time hoodlum Bobby Rouse has implicated the DA in a bribery scandal, threatening her integrity and her chances for victory. Nancy’s convinced that Caroline is the victim of a frame-up, but before finding the proof, she has another victim on her hands—Bobby Rouse, victim of murder. Politics can be a dirty business, and it’s up to Nancy to root out the corruption. Fearing that the election will be decided not by ballots but by bullets, Nancy knows this is one race she can’t afford to lose.
Author: Alex Morgan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481481584
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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From FIFA World Cup Champion, Olympic gold medalist, and bestselling author Alex Morgan comes the ninth book in an empowering and fun-filled middle grade series that inspired the Amazon original series, The Kicks! After an easy win against the Roses, Devin is reminded of how the Kicks were playing when she first joined and how far they have come since then. Devin runs into Sasha, a summer league teammate of hers, who confides that the Roses’ coach doesn’t seem to care that they’re losing and asks Devin for help. She invites the Roses to a weekend soccer clinic that the Kicks are going to. But when the eighth graders find out that Devin is helping another team in their league, they are not pleased and accuse Devin of helping the competition—especially when the Roses begin to win. Meanwhile, Zoe and Emma haven’t been seeing eye-to-eye, and their friendship seems to be in trouble, putting Devin and Jessi in the middle of their fights. When they begin to disrupt the Kicks’ practices, Devin knows she has to do something. Can Devin prove to her team and her friends that she’s not playing favorites or choosing sides?
