Heat by Lupica, Mike 

Paperback(Puffin Books, 2012)

BTSB #: 590898 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   
AR: 5.3 MG RC: 5.5 6-8 Lexile: 940 F&P: V

Genres:

Subjects: Brothers - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Illegal aliens - Fiction Cubans - Fiction Little League baseball - Fiction Social work - Fiction

Summary: Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.

Out of left field by Klages, Ellen 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2018)

BTSB #: P04191 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Sports Historical Fiction

Subjects: Women baseball players - Fiction Little League baseball - Fiction Gender role - Fiction Historical fiction

Summary: In 1957, when 10-year-old Katy Gordon is denied eligibility for the local Little League despite being known as the best pitcher in her neighborhood, she sets out to prove that females have always been an important part of baseball history as ball players.

Warrior on the mound by Headen, Sandra W. 

BTSB Prebound(Holiday House, 2024)

BTSB #: 432867 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Historical Fiction Sports Multicultural

Subjects: Little League baseball - Fiction Baseball - Fiction Race relations - Fiction North Carolina - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.

Way home looks now by Shang, Wendy Wan Long 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2015)

BTSB #: 805272 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.2 MG RC: 3.7 3-5 Lexile: 650

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Little League baseball - Fiction Baseball - Fiction Grief - Fiction Chinese Americans - Fiction Pittsburgh (Pa.) - History|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share and bring them back to life.