| Wild Pitch, Backyard Sports (series #1) |
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What You Need to Know:
• Wild Pitch is the first in a series of sports books for young readers based on the popular Backyard Sports computer and video games.
• The writing is basic and boring, but will appeal to a newly independent reader who is baseball-crazed and not finding much to read at his level, because this genre for this reader level is sorely lacking. |
Sweet Book Summary:
Wild Pitch is about a baseball team, The Backyard Bombers, who play pick-up games with other teams in the neighborhood. The story follows the game's play by play, ad nauseam. The author threw in a friendship story line, where Joey, the Bomber's manager gets a little too bossy. The team then gets disgruntled with Joey and they start playing badly. Joey very simply realizes the error of his ways, and the team wins!
Basically, a middle school student could have written this book. However, I did give it two stars for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I like the diversity on the baseball team. The Bombers are made up of girls and boys named Achmed, A.C. Chen, Pablo, Ernie, Vicki and Samantha, to name a few. I also think if your young reader (Reader, Jr.) is starting to read chapter books, and cannot find a sports series, and he is not into fantasy (Magic Tree House, etc) then give this series a try. Or better yet, see below for Matt Christopher's young baseball series. |
Author: Michael Teitelbaum Illustrator: Ron Zalme Published: 2008, pages
Themes: Books for Boys, Feelings, Sports, Friendship, Teamwork, Character/Values |
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