Hard Ball: A Billy Baggs Novel (Thorndike Large Print Literacy Bridge Series) - Hardcover

Weaver, Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786227524 ISBN 13: 9780786227525

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers.

About this title

From the Author

Hard Ball uses baseball to explore family issues.
Hard Ball (HarperCollins '98) is third in a linked series of YA novels, beginning with Striking Out ('93) and Farm Team ('95). These books seem to work very well in grades 7-10 (thanks teachers!) and particulary for young males who "never read" or don't like to read. Baseball is the hook, but I've tried to squeeze in as much literary value as I can. A recurring theme is that the givens in our lives--our setting, our family, even our names--need not be limiting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0786227524
• ISBN 13: 9780786227525
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270