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Satch & Me

Dan Gutman · 175 pages

"You wanna know who threw the fastest pitch ever?"Many baseball players claim that Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher in the history of the game. Stosh and his coach, Flip Valentini, are on a mission to find out. With radar gun in tow, they travel back to 1942 and watch Satch pitch to power hitter Josh Gibson in the Negro League World Series. They soon learn that everything about Satch is fast

BaseballTime TravelMiddle GradeSeries
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Baseball Great

Tim Green · 272 pages

Josh feels like he's starting to make it big! Jaden, the school reporter, says he's going to take the baseball team to number one. Then his dad pulls him off the field and signs him up with Coach Rocky Valentine's youth championship team, the Titans. He says Josh has what it takes to be a baseball great — and the Titans will help him get there.Now Josh is gulping down Rocky's "Super Stax" milkshak

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The Fenway Foul-Up

David A. Kelly

Cousins Mike and Kate are at Boston's Fenway Park when the Red Sox's star hitter discovers that his lucky baseball bat has been stolen.

BaseballMiddle GradeSeriesMale Lead
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Circus Maximus

Damian Dibben

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Tut, Tut

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith · 74 pages

Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their style! The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka’s wacky brand of humor.

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Summerland

Michael Chabon · 512 pages

Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy.

BaseballMiddle GradeMale LeadAdventure
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Mudville

Kurtis Scaletta · 272 pages

Welcome to Moundville, where it's been raining for longer than Roy McGuire has been alive. Most people say the town is cursed--right in the middle of their big baseball game against rival town Sinister Bend, black clouds crept across the sky and it started to rain. That was 22 years ago . . . and it's still pouring.Baseball camp is over, and Roy knows he's in for a dreary, soggy summer. But when h

BaseballMiddle GradeMale LeadTeen Protagonist
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Heat

Mike Lupica · 220 pages

**Michael Arroyo has a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But his firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family's escape from Cuba, Michael's only family is his seventeen-yearold brother Carlos. If Social Services hears of their situation, they will be separated in the foster-care system—or worse, sent back to Cub

BaseballMiddle GradeMale LeadTeen Protagonist
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See You Later, Gladiator

Jon Scieszka, Adam McCauley · 87 pages

Everyone’s favorite time-travelers are changing their style! The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka’s wacky brand of humor.

Time TravelMiddle GradeSeriesMale Lead
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

W.P. Kinsella · 310 pages

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Nick of Time

Ted Bell · 419 pages

This fiery novel is about a boy who possesses a time machine; and with this treasure his heart is set on saving England from the grim fate of the past, and saving his kidnapped sister.

Time TravelMiddle GradeMale LeadSeries
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Return of the Home Run Kid

Matt Christopher · 168 pages

Sylvester Coddmyer III is having a dismal baseball season until he takes advice from a mysterious ex-ballplayer named Cheeko and starts to play more aggressively.

BaseballMiddle GradeMale Lead
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Swindle

Gordon Korman · 252 pages

After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.

BaseballMiddle GradeSeriesMale Lead
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The Never War

D.J. MacHale

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Sabotaged

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 397 pages

After helping Chip and Alex survive 15th century London, Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child, Andrea, face her fate. Andrea is really Virginia Dare, from the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jonah and Katherine are confident in their ability to help Andrea fix history, but when their journey goes dangerously awry, they realize that they may be in over their head. They've landed i

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The Time Paradox

Eoin Colfer · 448 pages

Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet...his younger self.

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A Mutiny in Time

James Dashner · 196 pages

Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks--a mutiny on the Santa María--to correct history and defeat the SQ.

Time TravelMiddle GradeSeriesMale Lead
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The Secret of the Indian

Lynne Reid Banks · 160 pages

As his adventures with Little Bear continue, Omri travels from the French and Indian wars to the present, and then back to the Old West at the tum-of-the-century.From the Hardcover edition.

Time TravelMiddle GradeSeriesMale Lead
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The Door to Time

Pierdomenico Baccalario · 222 pages

After moving from London to an old mansion on the English coast, eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia discover that their new home has twisting tunnels, strange artifacts from around the world, and a mysterious, locked door.

Time TravelMiddle GradeSeriesMale Lead
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The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 329 pages

As twelve-year-old Anand continues his studies to become a full-fledged member of The Brotherhood of the Conch, he journeys back to Moghul times, where he encounters powerful sorcerors, spoiled princes, noble warriors, and evil jinns.

Time TravelMiddle GradeSeriesMale Lead
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The Wells Bequest

Polly Shulman · 260 pages

Two teenagers use H. G. Wells's famous time machine to race through time and stop a dangerous enemy. Two teenagers use H.G. Wells’s famous time machine to race through time and stop a dangerous enemy.

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A Diamond in the Desert

Kathryn Fitzmaurice · 258 pages

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.

BaseballMiddle GradeMale LeadTeen Protagonist
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The Time Hunters

Carl Ashmore · 278 pages

Time TravelMiddle GradeSeriesTeen Protagonist
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany · 336 pages

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son, Albus, must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth:

Time TravelMiddle GradeSeriesMale Lead

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