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 Member: janimarCollectionsYour library (6,385), Read but unowned (10), ebook (21), Gave as gift (16), Audio (2), All collections (6,406) Reviews159 reviews Tagsschool (1,851), Christian (1,042), mystery (843), children fiction (578), picture book (568), fiction (367), Reformed (279), female sleuth (251), poetry (225), history (221) — see all tags Cloudstag cloud, author cloud, tag mirror About meI have been in education for years, teaching Prekindergarten, Kindergarten, second, third, fourth, fifth grade and high school. I recently left my beloved South Carolina to return to my home state of Maryland to care for my mother who has Alzheimer's. I have survived Stage III breast cancer, love to read and collect books about the Reformation. I am now teaching 11th grade Omnibus and 10th grade Rhetoric for a classical tutorial. About my libraryI have a lot of old children serials which I have collected since a child. I also have a lot of student readers, etc including some from my grandmother and father. I started becoming very interested in the Reformation about ten years ago and have collected many books since then. Groups50 Book Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2010, 75 Books Challenge for 2011, Ancient History, AP World History Books For Students, ARC Junkies, Baseball, Church History, Composition and Rhetoric, English History - Tudor through Edwardian —show all groups Favorite authorsJacques Barzun, Sinclair B. Ferguson, Jan Karon, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien (Shared favorites) Homepagehttp://drawingthelinesomewhere.com Also onAmazon, Facebook, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Twitter, Twitter Membership LocationMaryland Account typepublic, lifetime URLs
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Your copy of "Justice Beyond The Trail's End" has been mailed.
Thank you for your interest.
Al Patrick
posted by AlfredPatrick at 2:17 pm (EST) on Nov 8, 2011
posted by keith0718 at 4:05 am (EST) on Sep 11, 2011
I am happy to hear that a father wants to read to his son. I remember my friend was reading to her boys some classics in the morning while they waited to be picked up for school but she said she loved that at night her husband read to the boys as they were getting read for bed. Great literature, not really but a book he had liked as a kid, a part of some series. This one was about baseball and the boys would sometimes get up and act out the play as he read it. She said it was priceless.
Picture books: (These are all available at Amazon and most should be available through your local library)
Teammates by Peter Golenbock tells the story of PeeWee Reese and Jackie Robinson when he first went to the Dodgers.
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki. The story of boy in a Japanese intermittent camp during WWII and how baseball gives him a purpose. It won the Parent's Choice Award.
Frank and Ernest Play Ball by Alexander Day. This is part of the elephant and bear series. In this one they take over a team and learn the lingo. Great play on words.
Let Them Play by Margot Thesis Raven. True story about a Little League championship series in 1955 in Charleston, SC where all white player teams withdrew and wouldn't play against the black team.
How George Radbourn Saved Baseball by David Shannon. A former baseball star is bitter and vows to outlaw baseball forever and sends America into a continual winter until young Georgie Radbourn beats him in a winner-take-all contest.
The Bat Boy And His Violin by Galvin Curtis. (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book E.B. Lewis illustrator) Beautiful story of a father who never sees his son's violin playing as anything more than fiddlin' until his son takes a turn as bat boy for the Dukes in the Negro National League. Galvin Curtis also wrote Grandma's Baseball, which is harder to find today.
Chapter books:
Baseball Card Adventures. Author Dan Gutman has a whole series about a boy who has a baseball card collection and goes back to the time of the player. His first one was Honus and Me and it was followed by Jackie and Me. Now there are 10 in the series. Might be a great one to start and then he could follow up series as he gets older, on his own.
My Name Is America: The Journal of Biddy Owens The Negro Leagues (A Dear America Book)These books are fictional accounts of time periods in American history.
The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter. This one is for older boys (9 -12 probably) which actually a father whose 3 boys I taught gave me one year. Heartwarming, humor, and triumphant ending. His children loved it and he read it to them when the oldest was in 5th and the youngest in 2nd.
Matt Christopher writes a lot of sports books including baseball. Not much character development, and characters are different in each book. A lot like the one my friend's husband read to his children. Is a another series for boys who love sports and maybe are not much into reading. Ex: Little Lefty
John R. Tunis wrote quote a few baseball books but these would be for upper elementary and up. His Keystone Kids was written in 1943 before Jackie Robinson went to Dodgers. It is about two young brothers who become the double-play combination for the Dodgers; the older fights his team's Antisemitism when he is named manager and must act as mentor to a Jewish rookie catcher.
Thank You Jackie Robinson by Barbara Cohen.(4th - 6th grade) A novel about an interracial friendship between a young Jewish boy and an older African American man. Their common bond is a love for the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson. This book was made as a movie in 1998 but I haven't seen it.
Poems:
There are some great one out there but Casey at the Bat is a favorite. There are several available online but there are also quite a few picture books available, so you can check at the local library. This version was a Caldecott Honor book: Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 by Ernest L. Thayer and Christopher Bing
Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems by Marjorie Maddox
And here are some poems I used your son may enjoy
If School Were More Like Baseball
If school were more like baseball
we'd only have to play.
We'd hang out in the sunshine
and run around all day.
We wouldn't have to study.
We'd practice and we'd train.
And, best of all, they'd cancel
whenever there was rain.
--Kenn Nesbitt
Opening Day
On opening day
Of baseball season
Fans all shout
With little reason.
They scream for a single,
They yell for a strike.
They holler for any old thing
That they like.
And just that way
We shout and cheer
For opening day
Of school each year.
©1999 by Jane Yolen
Well,this should give you somewhere to start. I hope you and your son create some great memories as you read baseball stories.
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I found your library as a result of reading your review of Colson's How Now Shall We Live. I then discovered that you have quite a few interesting reviews which led me to peek into your library. Nice selection.
Kind Regards,
HowHop
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