Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.

Copyright Date: 2013

Edition Date: 2013 Release Date: 02/19/13

Pages: 183 pages

ISBN: 1-423-14004-4

ISBN 13: 978-1-423-14004-7

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2012043426

Dimensions: 20 cm.

Subject Heading:
Baseball. Fiction.
Moving, Household. Fiction.
Overweight persons. Fiction.
Bullies. Fiction.
Stealing. Fiction.
Schools. Fiction.
Middle schools. Fiction.
Baltimore (Md.). Fiction.

Language: English

Word Count: 41,556

Reading Level: 5.4

Interest Level: 2-5

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.4 / points: 6.0 / quiz: 150346 / grade: Middle Grades

Lexile: 810L

A powerful tale of body positivity in sports by legendary short-stop and a veteran sportswriter Cal Ripkin.

Cody Parker is the new kid in school. He's overweight, scared and hates his new life in Dullsville, Maryland, aka Baltimore, where he's a target okay, a big target for brutal teasing. But he loves baseball. And despite his size, he plays third base like a dream. Too bad he's competing for the starting job on the Orioles of the Dulaney Babe Ruth League against budding hoodlum Dante Rizzo, who vows to squeeze Cody's head like a grape if he beats him out. Life gets even more complicated when Cody's school, York Middle, is beset by a rash of mysterious thefts, a crime wave that threatens to sideline Cody and ruin a golden season for the Orioles. Will Cody ever succeed in getting people to see him for who he really is?