Game 1
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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 | Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers |
Binding | Hardcover (4 editions) |
Reading Level | Ages 9-12 |
# of Pages | 144 |
ISBN-10 | 1416918639 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1416918639 |
Publication Date | 02/27/2007 |
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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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12/1/2008 Carl Schwanke said:
tags: sports, fnatasy, I read, Barnstormers
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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