Harcourt Brace, 1999
"Gulliver books." While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.
Reading Level: 2.8 ; Accelerated Reader: 3.2
Baseball in April, and Other Stories, by Gary Soto
Harcourt Brace, 2000
A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures
of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California. Reading Level:
6.0; Accelerated Reader: 5.1
Lee & Low, 1993
A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over. Reading Level: 4.1; Accelerated Reader: 3.9
Bat 6 by Wolff, Virginia Euwer.
Scholastic, 1998
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount
the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry
comes to the surface.
Reading Level: 4.8; Accelerated Reader: 5.1
Becoming Joe DiMaggio, by Maria Testa
Candlewick Press, 2002
Joseph Paul grows up following the career of baseball great Joe DiMaggio
and learning the rules of the game from his grandfather and dreaming of
becoming a famous baseball player himself, and somehow healing his grandfather's
broken heart.
Reading Level: 7.5
Putnam & Grosset Group, 1997
The popular narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game, with additional text placing it in the context of Little League. Reading Level: 6.9
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball. Reading Level: 3.8; Accelerated Reader: 4.6
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2004
"A Paula Wiseman Book." In 1931, seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell pitches against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game, becoming the first professional female pitcher in baseball history. Accelerated Reader: 4.0
Miramax Books, 2002
Map on endpapers. The ferishers, little creatures who ensure perfect weather for Summerland, recruit Ethan Feld, one of history's worst baseball players, to help them in their struggle to save Summerland, and ultimately the world, from giants, goblins, and other legendary, terrible creatures. Reading Level: 5.8;
Accelerated Reader: 6.3
