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  • Six Innings: A Game in the Life

Six Innings: A Game in the Life

Author
James Preller
Publication Date
March 02, 2010
Genre / Grade Band
Fiction /  4th − 5th
Language
English
Six Innings: A Game in the Life
Description

Two teams, six innings, one game.

A lively cast of characters--baseball-loving boys between the ages of eleven to thirteen--are playing the biggest game of their lives. With acrobatic catches, clutch hits, dramatic whiffs, and costly errors, this game is full of action. But as the book unfolds, pitch by pitch, a deeper story emerges, with far more at stake: Sam and Mike, best friends, are trying to come to terms with Sam's newly diagnosed cancer. And this baseball diamond becomes the ultimate testing ground of Sam and Mike's remarkable friendship as they strive to find a way to both come out winners. This is for the championship. This is for life.

Six Innings is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Publication date
March 02, 2010
Genre
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780312602406
Lexile Measure
690
Publisher
Square Fish
BISAC categories
YAF007000 - Young Adult Fiction | Boys & Men
YAF059010 - Young Adult Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Baseball & Softball
Library of Congress categories
Baseball
Cancer
Baseball stories
Little League baseball

Publishers Weekly

Starred Review
Preller raises his game with this perceptive group portrait of boys who play Little League baseball. . . If Judy Blume could write a book about Little League, about its players' deepest fears and secret dreams, it might come out something like this.

ALA/Booklist

Starred Review
Dishing up a rare example of a character-driven tale that is also suspenseful and exciting, the author of the Jigsaw Jones series chronicles a magnificent championship game between two Little League teams that is as much about the players as the plays.

School Library Journal

Sharing tidbits of these boys' lives, exposing diverse backgrounds and situations, Six Innings should hit home with many readers....A tale of baseball, friendship, growth, and coming to terms with hardships, this fast read will grasp any reader who enjoys sports.

Kirkus

Following the play-by-play builds suspense and brings the reader right into the action and the special world of baseball and the people who love it.
James Preller
James Preller is the author of the popular Jigsaw Jones mystery books, which have sold more than 10 million copies since 1998. He is also the author of "Six Innings," an ALA Notable Book, and "Mighty Casey," his own twist on the classic poem, "Casey at the Bat." In addition to writing full-time, Preller plays in a men's hardball league and coaches Little League. He compares coaching kids to "trying to hold the attention of a herd of earthworms." He lives in Delmar, New York, with his wife, three children, cats and dog.
Bank Street
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Best Book
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