The Reading Warehouse

There's one last round of competition before the World Series in the fourth Little League novel

Two weeks of intense competition remain to decide the final teams for the Little League World Series. This year, the anticipation is high, as it's possible last year's finalists will return-a very rare occurrence. And those are the teams Carter and Liam now play for. These two players, one from each team, are thinking the same thought: How can I play against my best friend?

Matt Christopher (1917-1997) was an American author of children's books. He was a gifted athlete as a youth and became interested in writing at age fourteen, but it was 1941 before he sold his first story, The Missing Finger Points, to Detective Story magazine. His first children's book, The Lucky Baseball Bat, was published in 1954. Christopher wrote more than one hundred books as well as nearly three hundred short stories and articles published in over sixty-five magazines for children and adults. He was awarded the 1993 Milner Award and numerous writing honors from state organizations.

Nick Sullivan has narrated audiobooks for over twenty years and has recorded over four hundred titles. An Audie Award winner, he is also the recipient of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards. His TV and film credits include The Good Wife, The Affair, Bull, Boardwalk Empire, 30 Rock, Our Idiot Brother, and Private Life.