Home Run
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Just the Series: Baseball Great   

Series and Publisher: Baseball Great   

Annotation: When he, his sister, and his mother face poverty due to his parents' split, Josh hangs his hopes on winning a home-run contest whose grand prize is a new house.
Genre: [Sports fiction]
 
Reviews: 3
Catalog Number: #5768537
Format: Library Binding
Special Formats: Chapter Book Chapter Book
Publisher: HarperCollins
Copyright Date: 2016
Edition Date: 2016 Release Date: 02/23/16
Pages: 343 pages
ISBN: 0-06-231711-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-06-231711-7
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2016299700
Dimensions: 24 cm.
Language: English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist

The fourth episode in Green's Baseball Great series continues to throw tough challenges at young Josh, both on and off the playing field. Here the 13-year-old superstar really rides the emotional roller coaster as he continues to love his divorced, bitterly incompatible parents and also falls into a batting slump exacerbated by the demands of a harsh, possibly unscrupulous new coach. The baseball action is exciting, if not so intense as the domestic Sturm und Drang, and is capped by a rigged home-run contest that leads to a surprise happy ending. Sports play a strong enough role to put this solidly in that genre, but the domestic issues broaden its potential audience.

Horn Book

Only die-hard Green fans will slog their way through this installment. The characters' repetitive squabbling is tiresome, there's precious little baseball writing, and Green's attempts at humor revolve around overeating and immoderate braggadocio. Unresolved plot points, such as the mysterious military history of the protagonist's new coach, serve mostly as indications that Green isn't finished writing this series.

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Word Count: 62,791
Reading Level: 4.6
Interest Level: 5-9
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 4.6 / points: 9.0 / quiz: 180671 / grade: Middle Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:4.3 / points:15.0 / quiz:Q68374
Lexile: 690L

Perfect for fans of Mike Lupica's sports books and Dan Gutman's Baseball Card Adventures, New York Times bestselling author and former NFL player Tim Green gives readers a thrilling new addition to his bestselling Baseball Great series.

Josh's life has just fallen apart. His father will no longer be coaching the travel baseball team and is moving to Florida, forcing his mom and little sister to move into a small apartment on the wrong side of town. To make matters worse, the new coach of the travel team is an unforgiving drill sergeant.

But then Benji tells Josh of a home-run derby in which the winner gets a brand-new house. All Josh has to do to qualify is hit twenty home runs during his travel-team season. With Benji and Jaden's help, Josh is hoping to hit it out of the park and save his family, because if he strikes out, he may just lose everything.


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