[LM_NET] HIT: Baseball books for 8th grade boys

[Sandra Lingo <slingo47@FUSE.NET>]

I recently asked for recommendations of novels about baseball to use with my 8th 
grade guys book club.  Wow!  I am overwhelmed with the response.  I don't know what 
I'd do without all of you.  Here are the suggestions:
Samurai Shortstop (Gratz)
Stumptown Kid (Carol Gorman)
Baseball in April (Gary Soto)
Striking Out (Will Weaver)
Farm Team (Will Weaver)
Hard Ball (Will Weaver)
Choosing Up Sides (Ritter)
The Boy Who Saved Baseball (Ritter)
Baseball Card Adventures (Gutman):
    Honus and Me--start with this one
    Satch and Me
Summerland (Michael Chabon)--mixture of baseball & fantasy
Shoeless Joe (W. P. Kinsella)--basis for movie, Field of Dreams
Perfect Once Removed (Phillip Hoose)--tells how being related to Don Larson, only
    person to pitch a no hitter, helped him fit into town
Summer of '49
Bull Catcher (Alden R. Carter)
The Crazy Horse Electric Game (Chris Crutcher)
Painting the Black (Carl Deuker)
Over the Wall (Carl Deuker)
Heart of a Champion (Carl Deuker)
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup (Ron Koertge)--verse novel about a baseball star           
              
   sidelined by mono
Farm Team (Matthew Mcgough)--nonfiction about a bat boy coming of age with the 
   NY Yankees
The Soul of Baseball : A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America (Posnanski, 
Joe)--nonfiction      
    about the Negro League




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Sandra Lingo, Librarian
Delhi Middle School
5280 Foley Road
Cincinnati, Ohio   45238
slingo47@fuse.net

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