Baseball Saved Us

Download or read book Baseball Saved Us written by Ken Mochizuki and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Author Ken Mochizuki reads his award-winning book. There is some soft background music, and a few gentle sound effects, but the power of the words need little embellishment...This treasure of a book is well-treated in this format." - School Library Journal

Download or read book Passage to Freedom written by Ken Mochizuki and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Listening to the story is even more dramatic than reading it. It should be purchased by every public and school library." - School Library Journal

Download or read book Babe Ruth Saves Baseball! written by Frank Murphy and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All across the country in 1919, people are throwing down their bats, and giving up America's national pastime, so it is up to Babe Ruth to win back fans and save baseball.

Download or read book So Far from the Sea written by Eve Bunting and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura Iwasaki and her family are paying what may be their last visit to Laura's grandfather's grave. The grave is at Manzanar, where thousands of Americans of Japanese heritage were interned during World War II. Among those rounded up and taken to the internment camp were Laura's father, then a small boy, and his parents. Now Laura says goodbye to Grandfather in her own special way, with a gesture that crosses generational lines and bears witness to the patriotism that survived a shameful episode in America's history. Eve Bunting's poignant text and Chris K. Soentpiet's detailed, evocative paintings make the story of this family's visit to Manzanar, and of the memories stirred by the experience, one that will linger in readers' minds and hearts. Afterword.

Download or read book The Boy Who Saved Baseball written by John Ritter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Gallagher is in a tight spot. The fate of the Dillontown team rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. If Tom's team loses, they lose their field too. But how can they possibly win? Just when everything seems hopeless, a mysterious boy named Cruz de la Cruz rides into town and claims to know the secret of hitting. Not to mention the secrets of Dante Del Gato, Dillontown's greatest hitter ever. Since he walked away from the game years ago, Del Gato hasn't spoken a word to anyone. But now he might be Tom's only hope for saving his hometown. From the award-winning author of Over the Wall and Choosing Up Sides comes this imaginative tale of one boy's struggle to preserve the spirit of the game he loves.

Download or read book The Babe & I written by David A. Adler and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth. Full-color illustrations.

Download or read book Batter Up! History of Baseball written by Dona Herweck Rice and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a brief overview of baseball, including the breaking of racial barriers, women in baseball, and profiles of notable players.