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Perfect Game

Bowen, Fred

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Peachtree Publishers

Just the Series: Fred Bowen Sports Story

Series and Publisher: Fred Bowen Sports Story

Annotation: Isaac is a perfectionist, especially when it comes to baseball, and is unable to cope when things go wrong until his coach asks him to help out with a Unified Sports basketball team on which intellectually-disabled and other children play together.

Genre: [Sports fiction]

Reviews: 1

Catalog Number: #69919

Format: Perma-Bound Edition

Publisher: Peachtree Publishers

Edition Date: 2013 Release Date: 03/05/13

Pages: 143 pages

ISBN: Publisher: 1-561-45625-X Perma-Bound: 0-605-59948-3

ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-1-561-45625-3 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-59948-2

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2012027792

Dimensions: 20 cm.

Subject Heading:
Perfectionism (Personality trait). Fiction.
Basketball. Fiction.
People with mental disabilities. Fiction.
Baseball. Fiction.
Self-control. Fiction.

Language: English

Reviews:

Horn Book (Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2013)

Isaac is focused on pitching a perfect game--so much so that he loses focus on everything else. Then he's encouraged to help with the Special Olympics. Previously using words like "retarded" and "weird," he has a lot to learn, but soon gets a new perspective on what perfect means. The character development is predictable, but the book's lesson is laudable.

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Horn Book (Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 CDT 2013)

Word Count: 19,649

Reading Level: 3.8

Interest Level: 4-7

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 3.8 / points: 3.0 / quiz: 157727 / grade: Middle Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:3.2 / points:6.0 / quiz:Q60351

Lexile: 550L

Guided Reading Level: G

Isaac is determined to pitch a perfect game: no hits, no runs, no walks, and no errors.

He can't settle for less if he wants to make the summer all-star team. But when he allows a hit, Isaac keeps losing his cool on the mound and can't get his head back in the game.

Then Issac meets a very interesting Unified Sports basketball player who gets him thinking in a different way about the whole idea of a "perfect" game. But will this change in perspective help him be a better pitcher?

Themes of kindness, friendship, perfection, and ability star in this inspiring installment of Fred Bowen's Sports Story Series. The afterword provides interesting facts about the Special Olympics.

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