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Baseball Reads for Kids
Batter Up! We've got a whole roster full of great reads for kids about America's Favorite Pastime. Check one out today before they're loooong gone.
The boys by Jeff Newman; illustrated by Jeff Newman
Baseball hour by Carol Nevius; illustrated by Bill Thomson
Watch me throw the ball! by Mo Willems
Can I play too? by Mo Willems
Ballpark by Elisha Cooper
Baseball saved us by written by Ken Mochizuki; illustrated by Dom Lee
Barnstormers. Game 1 by Loren Long, Phil Bildner
Babe & me by Dan Gutman
The Aurora County All-Stars by Deborah Wiles
The big field by Mike Lupica
The boy who saved baseball by John H. Ritter
Change-up: mystery at the World Series by John Feinstein
Catcher with a glass arm by Christopher, Matt
Forced out by Gene Fehler
The girl who threw butterflies by Mick Cochrane
The Gorillas of Gill Park by Amy Gordon
High heat by Andrew Karre
Hothead: a novel by Cal Ripken, Jr.; with Kevin Cowherd
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord; illustrations by Marc Simont
Keeping score by Linda Sue Park