Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781417740567
Shoeless Joe Jackson, said by some to be the greatest baseball player ever, goes into a hitting slump just before he is to start his minor league career, so he asks his friend to make him a special bat to help him hit. A Texas Bluebonnet Award Winner
Author : Dan Gutman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0061973564
When Joe Stoshack hears about Shoeless Joe Jackson -- and the gambling scandal that destroyed the star player's career -- he knows what he has to do. If he travels back in time with a 1919 baseball card in his hand, he just might be able to prevent the infamous Black Sox Scandal from ever taking place. And if he could do that, Shoeless Joe Jackson would finally take his rightful place in the Baseball Hall of Fame. But can Stosh prevent that tempting envelope full of money from making its way to Shoeless Joe's hotel room before the big game?
Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689878961
It's Thanksgiving, and that means it's time for...football! Ethan has waited his whole nine-year-old life to be old enough to play in the annual family Turkey Bowl football game. This is his year. He wakes up Thanksgiving Day, dresses in all of his football finest, and runs downstairs to greet the team -- his whole family. But the kitchen isn't full of aunts and cousins and uncles -- a blizzard has snowed them out. And it looks like the Turkey Bowl just isn't meant to be this year. After all, who could play football in a blizzard? Ethan, that's who!
Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698149726
In a country struggling with acceptance, hope can come in many different forms. As a boy, Hector loved playing soccer in his small Johannesburg township. He dreamed of playing on a real pitch with the boys from another part of the city, but apartheid made that impossible. Then, in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and apartheid began to crumble. The march toward freedom in South Africa was a slow one, but when the beloved Bafana Bafana national soccer team won the African Cup of Nations, Hector realized that dreams once impossible could now come true. This poignant story of friendship artfully depicts a brief but critical moment in South Africa’s history and the unique role that sports can play in bringing people together.
Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 10,63 MB
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1452136939
A man known as the "Trashcan Wizard" sings and dances his way through the French Quarter in New Orleans, keeping his beloved city clean, until Hurricane Katrina's devastation nearly causes him to lose his spirit.
Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101996552
At the start of the 1941 baseball season, neither Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees nor Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox were beloved by baseball fans. But that all changed when Joe started a 56-game hitting streak and Ted's batting average rose to over .400. Despite numerous challenges along the way-Joe had his bat stolen by an overeager fan and Ted's batting average dipped to .3995 on the last day of the season-the records set by "Joltin' Joe" and "The Splendid Splinter" have yet to be broken. New York Times bestselling author of the Sluggers series (with Loren Long), Phil Bildner has written an accessible tribute to two of baseball's greatest heroes. Packed with fun facts and statistics for eager fans to pore over, this book is sure to be a home run!
Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0374305072
Rip, Red, and their friends on the Clifton United basketball team travel to a spring sleep-away tournament.
Author : John Lithgow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 17,54 MB
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 144244245X
In his first book, actor and musician John Lithgow introduces a memorable character, a fickle yet lovable child prodigy who brings the sounds and rhythms of an orchestra to sprawling visual life. With a double gatefold showing the entire orchestra, this is the ultimate book for the music lover in all of us.
Author : Phil Bildner
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781442421950
If you lived in Brooklyn in 1951, your life revolved around the Brooklyn Dodgers. Come summertime you bled Dodger blue. And it was in that summer of '51 that "Dem Bums" -- what we lovingly called our Dodgers -- caused their biggest stir of all. For the young Brooklyn Dodger fan in this story, the summer of 1951 was a summer for heroes. The Dodgers, with players like Jackie Robinson, Carl Erskine, and Clem Labine, faced off against the New York Giants in a pennant race that no one had seen the likes of and no one would ever forget. On October 2, 1951, the New York Giants of the borough of Brooklyn held its breath as the Dodgers faced the Giants for the third, tie-breaking game to determine which team would go on to play the Yankees in the World Series. More than just a story about baseball, this is a sweeping view of life in Brooklyn in the summer of 1951, from its streets, to its Cyclone, to its stadium. Phil Bildner pitches the ball and C. F. Payne hits a shot to be heard 'round the world giving this renowned story new life.
Author : Loren Long
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416918922
The Paynes are down at the bottom of their last inning, but are they out? The final book in Loren Long and Phil Bildner's Sluggers!
