King of the mound :

Tooke, Wes.

King of the mound : my summer with Satchel Paige / Wes Tooke. - 1st Simon & Schuster Bks. for Young Readers pbk. ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2013. �2012 - 155 p. ; 20 cm.

Wilson's Children, October 2012 Wilson's Junior High School, October 2012 School Library Journal, February 2012 Booklist, February 2012 Horn Book, November 2012 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), April 2012 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2012 Kirkus Review, November 2011 Library Media Connection, May 2012

Twelve-year-old Nick loves baseball so after a year in the hospital fighting polio and with a brace on one leg, Nick takes a job with the team for which his father is catcher and gets to see the great pitcher, Satchel Paige, play during the 1935 season. Includes historical notes.

5.6. 3-6 Follett School Solutions.



9781442433472


Paige, Satchel, 1906-1982 --Fiction.


Baseball--Fiction.
Handicapped--Fiction.
Father-son relationship--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Poliomyelitis--Fiction.
Historical fiction.


Bismarck (N.D.)--History--Fiction.


Baseball stories.
Historical fiction.

PZ7.T638 / Ki 2013

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