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Coming Out Day Stories: Kids
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Coming Out Day Stories: Kids
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After researching Glenn Burke, the first major league baseball player to come out as gay, sixth-grader Silas Wade slowly comes out to his best friend Zoey, then his coach, with unexpected consequences.
3) Chicago Cubs
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This series gives readers an inside look at the baseball teams that make up Major League Baseball. Sports fans will love the vivid photographs and fun facts included in the Inside MLB series. --Publisher
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My weirder-est school volume 10
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[2022]
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English
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A.J.'s class is going head-to-head against Dirk School in a charity softball game. The losing team must clean the winning school's toilet with a toothbrush! Mr. Ott, retired baseball pro, intends to lead Ella Mentry School to victory, but will his weird tactics actually make the team lose?
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Millbrook Press, A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
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[2014].
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"Covers the century-long history of the World Series, from its humble beginnings to becoming a worldwide sensation. Discover the drama behind the statistics and record books that keeps the crowd enthralled!"--Amazon.com.
7) Heroine
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[2019]
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"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place shes ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers shes been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends, fellow injured athletes, others with just time...
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Millbrook Press
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[2013]
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Lena Blackburne loved baseball. He watched it, played it, he coached it. But he didn't love the ways players broke in new baseballs. Tired of soggy, blackened, stinky baseballs, he found a better way. Thanks to a well-timed fishing trip and a top-secret mud recipe, Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud was born. For seventy-five years, baseball teams have used Lena's magic mud to prepare baseballs before every game.
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Find Your Voice! Students
Graded Summer - 7th/8th Grade
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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Graded Summer - 7th/8th Grade
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Chapter Books and Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
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"Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much ... like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when...
10) I got it!
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Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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[2018]
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In this wordless picture book, a young outfielder imagines all the terrifying ways he might not catch the baseball, and one way that he can.
12) Golden arm
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In this riveting story about baseball and brotherhood, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks finds himself pitching his way out of poverty--one strike at a time. By "a premier author of provocative YA sports novels" (The Bulletin). Lazarus "Laz" Weathers has always been shy, and his issue with stuttering when he speaks hasn't helped. Stuck in a Seattle trailer park, Laz finds baseball helps him escape from the world of poverty and drugs. When...
13) Lost boy
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After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father.
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All William Ellsworth Hoy wanted to do was play baseball. After losing out on a spot on the local deaf team, William practiced even harder-eventually earning a position on a professional team. But his struggle was far from over. In addition to the prejudice Hoy faced, he could not hear the umpires' calls. One day he asked the umpire to use hand signals: strike, ball, out. That day he not only got on base but also changed the way the game was played...
15) Baseball great
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Baseball great novel volume 1
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English
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All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
18) Play ball!
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Little league volume 1
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English
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"Eleven-year-old cousins who are closer than most brothers, catcher Liam McCarthy and pitcher Carter Jones grew up playing baseball together. Now, their team is on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: the Little League Baseball World Series. To reach the title match, however, they must first beat their number one rivals from Southern California. Little do they know that the game will prove to be just the first challenge they'll face...
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Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Everyone makes mistakes--even professional athletes. Karl Malone missed free throws in the 1997 NBA Finals agains the Chicago Bulls. Catcher Hank Gowdy of the New York Giants tripped on his own mask and dropped the ball in 1924. Read about game-ending errors, on the court meltdowns, and more in this epci book of fails."--
20) Slumpbuster
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Eleven-year-old slugger Banjo "The Great Walloper" Bishbash is overcome by a nasty hitting slump as he tries to lead the Rambletown Rounders to the division baseball championship.
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