Extra Innings - Hardcover

Peck, Robert Newton

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060288671 ISBN 13: 9780060288679

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2001

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Crippled in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Tale Stonemason's dreams of becoming a professional baseball player are gone forever, but turning to his great-grandfather and great-aunt, Tale finds unexpected comfort in their tales that help him get through his difficult recovery.

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About the Author:

Robert Newton Peck is the best-selling author of more than sixty novels for both children and adults, including A Day No Pigs Would Die, A Part of the Sky, and the fabulously successful Soup Series. Mr. Peck lives in Longwood, FL.

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Grade 6-8-Sixteen-year-old Tate Stonemason survives the crash of a small plane that killed his parents and sister. Injuries from the crash also destroy his dream of playing baseball in the major leagues one day. Bitter and lonely, Tate is comforted by his Great-Granddad Abbott Bristol Stonemason and the man's adopted African-American daughter, Vidalia. She tells Tate of her early childhood spent with Ethiopia's Clowns, a Depression-era, all-black baseball team that barnstormed its way through the South, before she was adopted by the white Stonemason family. The long story within a story of her childhood is her legacy to the teen. After her death, he finds a reason to go on with his life, as he begins to write Vidalia's oral history. The account of the barnstorming team, getting by on a shoestring and finding kindness and hatred in the deep South, is the best part of this book. Many readers, however, will find it difficult to plow through the elaborate dialogue that can best be described as baroque. Unfortunately, Tate and his relatives seem rather remote and artificial creations. At the novel's end, readers may find it difficult to care much about the boy because they haven't gotten to know him very well.
Todd Morning, Schaumburg Township Public Library, IL
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