| Strike Three, You're Dead Contributor(s): Berk, Josh (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307930068 ISBN-13: 9780307930064 Publisher: Yearling Books OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation - Baseball - Juvenile Fiction | Law & Crime |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 590 |
| Series: Lenny & the Mikes Mysteries |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.5" (0.40 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Locality - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 157686 Reading Level: 4.1 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An Edgar Award Finalist Lenny Norbeck is a die-hard baseball lover. Unfortunately, he's no player himself (according to him, he's the worst there ever was.) But he'd make a heck of an announcer. He gets a lot of practice sitting with his best friends, Mike and Other Mike, watching Phillies games from their lawn couch--a sweet outdoor TV arrangement Mike's dad hooked them up with. Being a real announcer is his dream, and he gets his chance to prove himself when he enters an Armchair Announcer contest and wins. The prize: he gets to be the broadcaster, live, for one inning at a real Phillies game. The game goes very wrong, though. Before Lenny gets to do his inning, a young, promising pitcher fresh out of the minors literally drops dead on the mound. The official verdict is that he died of a heart attack, but Lenny has a hunch there's something more going on. So he and the Mikes set out to investigate. The suspects are many, and though the trio barks up the wrong tree a few times, they are always right on the heels of the real killer. . . . |