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Author:

Lupica, Mike

Title:

The batboy / Mike Lupica.

Publisher:

Puffin,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

246 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Baseball--Fiction.
Bat boys--Fiction.
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)--Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Baseball--Fiction.
Detroit Tigers (Baseball team)--Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.
Mother-son relationship--Fiction.

Summary:

It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father.There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop?once the most popular player in baseball before he was banned for using steroids. Now he is making his comeback. And an unlikely friendship slowly develops between this man in need of a family and this boy in need of a father. Mike Lupica, king of the sports novel, delivers his most powerful and kid-friendly to date.

ISBN:

0142417823
9780142417829

OCLC:

(OCoLC)535490755

Locations:

EXPC755 -- Akron Public Library (Akron) — YA LUP

NPSX771 -- North Polk High School (Alleman)

HLPC845 -- Alton Public Library (Alton)

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

CLPC792 -- Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn)

9ISX953 -- North Iowa High School (Buffalo Center)

YSPD232 -- Camanche Public Library (Camanche)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BSPB851 -- Colo Public Library (Colo)

VTPD454 -- Cresco Public Library (Cresco)

BLPC611 -- Earlham Public Library (Earlham)

EEPC605 -- George Public Library (George)

RSPC135 -- Lake City Public Library (Lake City)

WVPB305 -- Lake Park Public Library (Lake Park)

AQPC277 -- Lamoni Public Library (Lamoni)

LASX353 -- CAL Community School District Library (Latimer)

EZPE755 -- Le Mars Public Library (Le Mars)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

ZLPD437 -- Missouri Valley Public Library (Missouri Valley)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

CHPB482 -- North English Public Library (North English)

VKPE334 -- Oelwein Public Library (Oelwein)

YIPB062 -- Shellsburg Public Library (Shellsburg)

BZPC851 -- Slater Public Library (Slater)

MDPA423 -- Steamboat Rock Public Library (Steamboat Rock)

BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)

YQPB532 -- Wyoming Public Library (Wyoming)

BYPB851 -- Zearing Public Library (Zearing)