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Game 1

Average rating
4.5 out of 5
Based on 8 Ratings and 8 Reviews

Book Description
Griffith, Graham, and Ruby's father passed away in the war. And now they must join their mother and their father's wartime traveling baseball team, The Travelin' Nine, on a tour of America to raise money. No one will tell the kids why the team needs money so badly. Their only clue is a baseball with a hole the size of an acorn in it that their Uncle Owen gave to them the night of their father's fu... More
Book Information
Publisher
BindingLibrary Binding (4 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of PagesN/A
ISBN-101435203038
ISBN-13978-1435203037
Publication Date05/15/2007
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About Phil Bildner (Author) : Phil Bildner is a published author of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Phil Bildner include Turkey Bowl, Game 3: #3 in the Barnstormers Tales of the Travelin' N... more
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About Loren Long (Illustrator) : Loren Long has received two gold medals from the Society of Illustrators. His first picture book, Angela Johnson's I Dream of Trains, won the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' Golde... more
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Reader Comments
12/1/2008 Carl Schwanke said:
A very unique series! It's set in 1899 and involves a family traveling across the country with an itinerant baseball team to raise $10,000, a very sinister bad guy, and a magic baseball!. This first one takes a little while to introduce all the characters, but the story really sucks you in. Sports, ... more

tags: sports, fnatasy, I read, Barnstormers

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