Library Binding
(Random House Childrens Books, Dec. 1, 1975)
Recounts some unusual moments in football history, such as Jim Marshall's sixty-yard run in the wrong direction and the tackle by a man who wasn't even in the game.
After drowning in a river, Elliot Hope takes up residence with his family as a ghost, devising outlandish ways of raising his three children, Amanda, Danny, and Diane
FREAK YEARIt’s 1967 and New Jersey high school sophomore Michael Waldman isn’t much interested in the riots in nearby Newark or the war in Viet Nam. He especially isn’t interested in cutting his long hair or joining the high school football team. So when his guidance counselor (who is also the football coach) suggests that Mike do both to stop “looking like a freak and being thought of as one,” he decides to go to war with the coach.This marks the beginning of Mike’s hilarious Freak Year, but he soon learns that the coach/guidance counselor isn’t the biggest freak walking the halls at George Washington High School. He’s assigned to a group that meets regularly with Dr. Plantze, the school psychologist. It’s one laugh after another, as Mike and the school’s so-called misfits set about proving the biggest freaks at the school are running it!
In this first of three books about Ruth Marinis amazing professional baseball career, she signs with the Dodger organization. School Library Journal noted, Solid writing and good sports action mark these sports fiction titles. Ruth Marini is a winning character and a convincing one. Both male and female sports fans will find these books a good choice.
In this second book about Ruth Marinis amazing professional baseball career, she struggles to become the first female major leaguer. School Library Journal noted, Solid writing and good sports action mark these sports fiction titles. Ruth Martini is a winning character and a convincing one. Both male and female sports fans will find these books a good choice.
In this book about Ruth Marinis amazing professional baseball career, she battles back from a career-threatening injury. In naming this book to the Young Adult Choices List for 1987, the International Reading Association noted, The author shows what it is like in pro ball and what it might be like to be the first female to make it.