Barnstormers: Game 1
A Historical, Mystery, Fantasy book. This book was more like a first chapter. Unless a kid was only interested in reading baseball...
Griffith, Graham, and Ruby's father passed away in the war. And now they must join their mother and their father's wartime traveling baseball team, The Travelin' Nine, on a tour of America to raise money. No one will tell the kids why the team needs money so badly. Their only clue is a baseball with a hole the size of an acorn in it that their Uncle Owen gave to them the night of their father's funeral. They know very little about its significance except that their father made it with his own two hands and carried it with him throughout the war. And when all three kids hold the ball, strange things begin to happen...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 144 pages
- ISBN: 9781416918639 / 1416918639
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I really didn't care for this book. I was pretty much confused for the whole first half, I think because there wasn't enough back story. Which, I know is hard in a book with 133 pages. I also really didn't care for the audio version. There were quite a lot of historical baseball terms used (and, yes, that part was pretty cool) but the... This book was more like a first chapter. Unless a kid was only interested in reading baseball books, I can't imagine that they would be motivated enough to pursue this series. This is a story set in the late 1800s about three kids who are out on the barnstorming circuit with their mom because their dad has been killed. They apparently owe someone a great deal,of money which they are trying to earn back by playing baseball. There is a lot of old fashioned baseball jargon and mystical happenings but no resolution....
