| Striking Out Contributor(s): Weaver, Will (Author), Carroll, Jim (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0064471136 ISBN-13: 9780064471138 Publisher: Harperteen OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1995 Annotation: Up until now, Billy's life has been full of nevers. Never been to a movie or played baseball with a real team. Never got over feeling guilty for the loss of his brother, which forever shattered his Minnesota farm family. Urged on by the town's baseball coach, Billy discovers he has talent--both on the field of his family's farm and on the baseball field. 1994 ALA Best Book for Young Adults, 1993 American Bookseller Pick of the Lists.Young Adult. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation - Baseball - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Self-esteem & Self-reliance - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Parents |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93000565 |
| Lexile Measure: 540 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 4.17" W x 6.97" (0.31 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Self-Esteem |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10890 Reading Level: 3.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 8.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Up until now, Billy Baggs's life has been loaded with nevers. Never been to a movie. Never played baseball with a real team. Never got over feeling guilty for the loss of his brother. But change is in the air. Billy discovers he has a natural talent for baseball, especially as a pitcher. Maybe, just maybe, there's more in store for him than life on the farm. But can Billy convince his father of that? Or is he destined to spend the rest of his life pitching nothing but hay?Teenager Billy Baggs is desperately needed on his family's struggling dairy farm, but he's also an extraordinarily gifted natural baseball player. How he struggles to reconcile his father's desire to keep him on the farm with his coach's interest in getting him on the field is at the heart of this 'meaty story.... The complex characters grow and change in profoundly real ways.''K. ' With] flashes of humor, a wealth of lovingly recounted details evokes the difficult daily life on a small dairy farm.''Publishers Weekly. 1994 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) |
Contributor Bio(s): Weaver, Will: - Will Weaver is an award-winning fiction writer. His latest novel is The Survivors, a sequel to his popular young adult novel Memory Boy. His other books include Full Service, Defect, Saturday Night Dirt, Super Stock Rookie, Checkered Flag Cheater, Claws, and the Billy Baggs books Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball, all of which are ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Formerly an English professor at Bemidji State University, he lives in northern Minnesota, a region he writes from and loves. He is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hunting, fishing, canoeing, and hiking with his family and friends. |