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Keeping Score
Contributor(s): Park, Linda Sue (Author)

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ISBN: 0547248970     ISBN-13: 9780547248974
Publisher: Clarion Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation - Baseball
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Emotions & Feelings
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2010279306
Age Level: 9-12
Grade Level: 4-7
Lexile Measure: 770(Not Available)
Guided Reading: Q (Grade 4)
Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.54" W x 7.6" L (0.41 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.
- Locality - New York, N.Y.
Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 120832
Reading Level: 5.4   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 7.0
 
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Publisher Description:

Both Maggie Fortini and her brother, Joey-Mick, were named for baseball great Joe DiMaggio. Unlike Joey-Mick, Maggie doesn't play baseball--but at almost ten years old, she is a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maggie can recite all the players' statistics and understands the subtleties of the game. Unfortunately, Jim Maine is a Giants fan, but it's Jim who teaches Maggie the fine art of scoring a baseball game. Not only can she revisit every play of every inning, but by keeping score she feels she's more than just a fan: she's helping her team.

Jim is drafted into the army and sent to Korea, and although Maggie writes to him often, his silence is just one of a string of disappointments--being a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the early 1950s meant season after season of near misses and year after year of dashed hopes. But Maggie goes on trying to help the Dodgers, and when she finds out that Jim needs help, too, she's determined to provide it. Against a background of major league baseball and the Korean War on the home front, Maggie looks for, and finds, a way to make a difference.

Even those readers who think they don't care about baseball will be drawn into the world of the true and ardent fan. Linda Sue Park's captivating story will, of course, delight those who are already keeping score.


Contributor Bio(s): Park, Linda Sue: -

Linda Sue Park is the author of bestseller A Long Walk to Water as well as the Newbery Medal book A Single Shard and many other acclaimed novels and picture books. She lives in Rochester, NY. www.lspark.com, Twitter: @LindaSuePark.


 
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