Curveball
Curveball
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Penguin
Just the Series: Winning Season Vol. 9   

Series and Publisher: Winning Season   

Annotation: Seventh-grade baseball player Eddie Ventura listens to the sports announcer's voice in his head and gets into trouble when he writes a series of articles for the school paper.
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #4269428
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Copyright Date: 2007
Edition Date: 2008 Release Date: 02/14/08
Pages: 112 pages
ISBN: 0-14-241092-6
ISBN 13: 978-0-14-241092-9
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2006016882
Dimensions: 20 cm.
Language: English
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Horn Book

In Takedown, seventh-grade wrestler Donald learns that winning is as much about maintaining emotional control as having physical strength. Curveball has seventh-grade first-baseman Eddie anonymously covering his team for the school newspaper. In both cases, the vividly written sports action scenes outshine the heavy-handed characterizations and often leaden dialogue.

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Word Count: 15,492
Reading Level: 4.8
Interest Level: 4-7
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.8 / points: 2.0 / quiz: 113797 / grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:4.6 / points:6.0 / quiz:Q43716
Lexile: 750L

The pressures of being an undercover reporter are getting to Eddie Ventura. No one on his baseball team has realized that he is the anonymous writer behind all the great new coverage their team has been getting from their school newspaper. The only problem is—not everyone is thrilled with the stories, or the uncanny way their secrets are being leaked to the press. Should Eddie quit writing for the school newspaper before his secret is uncovered?


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