Baseball blowup [Jake Maddox Sports Stories]by Maddox, Jake 

BTSB Prebound(Stone Arch, 2023)

BTSB #: 596129 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.9 MG Lexile: 630

Genres:

Subjects: Baseball - Fiction Pitching (Baseball) - Fiction Teamwork (Sports) - Fiction Friendship - Fiction

Summary: Malcolm loves baseball and science, but his teammates are not always pleased with the ideas he comes up with--until he uses science to come up with a winning pitch, the knuckleball.

Diamond double play [Jake Maddox Sports Stories]by Maddox, Jake 

BTSB Prebound(Stone Arch, 2020)

BTSB #: 596265 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.1 MG Lexile: 610 F&P: P

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Baseball - Fiction Teamwork (Sports) - Fiction Self-confidence - Fiction

Summary: Blake Easton has never played organized sports, so when he makes the local traveling baseball team as a bench player he is thrilled; and when the team's star second baseman (and all around annoyance) Kyle, breaks his foot in the very first game the coach calls on Blake to fill in--but Blake is not sure he can perform as well as Kyle, and even less sure that he can trust Kyle's helpful advice.

Hero two doors down by Robinson, Sharon 

Paperback(Scholastic, 2020)

BTSB #: 759978 Temp OS

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.3 MG RC: 3.7 3-5

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Robinson, Jackie,|d1919-1972 - Fiction Satlow, Steve - Childhood and youth - Fiction Baseball - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Jews - United States - Fiction Race relations - Fiction Prejudices - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Flatbush (New York, N.Y.) - History|y20th century - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - History|y1898-1951 - Fiction

Summary: Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.