Mr. Strike Out by Jake Maddox

Baseball-Perseverence

David Gray is notorious in his baseball league, notorious for strike outs, both as a pitcher and a batter. After learning about the great Babe Ruth, David becomes determined to become a good all-around player, which means he’ll have to learn how to bat.

 

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Gingernsap by Patricia Riley Giff

 Historical Fiction – WWII – Ghosts

When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn.

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The Quail Club by Carolyn Marsden

Realistic Fiction – Friendship

Oy lives in America now, but she loves to go to the back room of Pak’s auto shop on Saturdays to learn traditional Thai dances. She loves it almost as much as being a member of the Quail Club – five friends who gather after school to hatch and care for baby quail. When the teacher announces a talent show, Oy knows how proud her family and Pak would be to see her step onstage in her beautiful gold-threaded dress from Thailand. But bossy Liliandra vows to kick her out of the Quail Club if she won’t team up for a very different kind of dance. Someone will be disappointed. But who?

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Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald

Humor

While picking up milk for his children’s cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space.

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Source:  Follett Summaries