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Series:
Big shots volume 4
Publisher:
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
[2025]
Language:
English
Description:
"Boston Bearcats rookie Robbie Corrigan is living the dream. He's made it to the NHL, his best friend/teammate and fellow "orgasm donor" is his roomie--and the women of Boston love them both. Life is sweet. That is, until he meets Skylar Paige, division 1 softball pitcher, girl least likely to take anyone's bull...and the one member of the opposite sex immune to his charms. Robbie might be dazzled by the badass pitcher, but Skylar pegs him as a filthy...
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Series:
One of us is lying volume 1
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 730L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Bad body Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again. He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude...
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Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
Description:
"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...
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Series:
Baseball great novels volume 1
Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
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.
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Language:
English
Description:
Beginning and advanced potters can learn throwing techniques to create perfectly symmetrical basic forms. Step-by-step instructions plus more than 270 black-and-white photographs illustrate how to throw cylindrical and open shapes as well as explaining advanced throwing for teapots, pitchers, and more.
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Publisher:
Kodansha USA
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Regional preliminary round 4. Akikawa Academy's Ace, Yang, is coolly taking Seido apart! Seido regrettably lets Akikawa Academy gain points to start the game, and they're sucked into their opponent's rhythm. And then first pitcher Furuya reaches the end of his stamina under the hot rays of the summer "I want to pitch until the end!" he thinks, responding to the cheers of his team with a burning tenacity. But then he hears a call for a pitcher ! To...
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Series:
Publisher:
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date:
[2020]
Lexile measure:
1060L
Language:
English
Description:
"Cy Young was one of the hardest-throwing pitchers of all time. He recorded three no-hitters-including a perfect game-and accumulated more than 2,800 strikeouts on his way to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Scott H. Longert uses Young's life story to introduce middle-grade readers to the game, explaining balls, strikes, and outs in an easy-to-understand way. Longert narrates each season and each milestone game with an enthusiastic play-by-play...
12. Perfect game
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Publisher:
Peachtree Publishers
Lexile measure:
550L
Language:
English
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Isaac is a perfectionist, especially when it comes to baseball, and is unable to cope when things go wrong until his coach asks him to help out with a Unified Sports basketball team on which intellectually-disabled and other children play together.
13. The grip
Author:
Series:
Marcus Stroman volume 1
Lexile measure:
640L
Language:
English
Description:
Marcus, a young baseball pitcher, learns that perfect games only come with a lot of practice--and some strikeouts.
14. Baseball genius
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Series:
Lexile measure:
750L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"An average kid with an above average talent for predicting baseball pitches tries to help his favorite player out of a slump"--
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Publisher:
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date:
2017
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 340L
Language:
English
Description:
Need a way to shut up some snooty kid when he gloats about his private school? Looking for the perfect response when your best friend joins the grammar police? Want a quick and easy way to out-snap even the snappiest comeback? Nate Wright has the answer: a good old-fashioned wedgie!
The whole gang from P.S. 38 is back for more hijinks, hilarity, and underwear hoisting in this new collection of Big Nate comics. Can Chad somehow survive...
The whole gang from P.S. 38 is back for more hijinks, hilarity, and underwear hoisting in this new collection of Big Nate comics. Can Chad somehow survive...
16. Tanglewood tales
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Language:
English
Description:
One of 19th-century America's greatest authors recounts timeless tales from Greek mythology in this delightful partner to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Nathaniel Hawthorne's evocative interpretations of traditional stories about heroes, sorceresses, kings, and other legendary characters provide young readers and listeners with a spellbinding introduction to classic myths. The adventures begin with "The Minotaur," the tale of an Athenian prince's...
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Publisher:
Bearport Publishing
Lexile measure:
960L
Language:
English
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"As the pitcher sends the ball flying, the batter takes a big swing. Crack! The ball zooms out of the park. It's a home run. From the perfecting a pitch to syncing up a swing, baseball takes skill, practice, and a little bit of STEM. Explore the science, technology, engineering, and math behind the game of baseball. Sports and STEM? Score!"--
18. The golden bowl
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Language:
English
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The Golden Bowl comes in the first years of the 20th-century: the publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, decided never to serialise it and published it in New York in December 1904 in two volumes. After just a few months, in February 1905, also Methuen published the novel in London in a one-volume edition. In 1909, a revised edition appeared as volumes 23 and 24 of the New York edition, and James this time also prepared the preface, in which he reflected...
19. Molly Pitcher
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Language:
English
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Act out the story of Molly Pitcher, a tough, smart, and brave soldier's wife who fights in his place during the Revolutionary War! Featuring roles with differentiated reading levels, this Reader's Theater script supports differentiation and English language learner strategies, allowing all students to participate and confidently build reading fluency, whether they are struggling with reading or are proficient. By performing with their peers, students...
Publisher:
Skyhorse
Language:
English
Description:
Stefan Fatsis sends his "stunningly perfect, consummately perfect, why-would-anyone-use-anything-else? perfect" glove to be restored by the glove designer at Rawlings. Frank Deford makes the case that the baseball cap may be the most universal article of clothing ever designed. Roger Angell considers why it is that pitchers are "so much livelier and more garrulous than hitters." George Plimpton reflects on the slow demotion of aging or slumping players...