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Author:

Shang, Wendy Wan Long.

Title:

The way home looks now / by Wendy Wan-Long Shang.

Edition:

1st ed., May 2015.

Publisher:

Scholastic Press,

Copyright Date:

c2015

Description:

250 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Chinese Americans--Fiction.
Little League baseball--Fiction.
Baseball--Fiction.
Traffic accidents--Fiction.
Bereavement--Fiction.
Pittsburgh (Pa.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Baseball stories.

Summary:

In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share and bring them back to life.

Indexed by:

School Library Journal, March 2015
Pub Weekly, March 2015
Kirkus Starred, February 2015
Booklist, March 2015
School Library Journal
Pub Weekly
Kirkus Starred

ISBN:

0545852242
9780545852241

LCCN:

2014028707

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

GKPC851 -- Huxley Public Library (Huxley)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

GMPD771 -- Pleasant Hill Public Library (Pleasant Hill)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)