Hard Ball : A Billy Baggs Novel - Hardcover

Weaver, Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060271213 ISBN 13: 9780060271213

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1998

Synopsis

A fourteen-year-old Minnesota farm boy has to figure out how to get along with the arch-rival in his love life and on the baseball diamond, and both boys must learn how to deal with the unfair expectations of their fathers

About this title

About the Author

Will Weaver teaches English and creative writing at Bemidji State University. He has written two books for adults, Red Earth, White Earth and Gravestone Made of Wheat, and is the winner of both the McKnight and the Bush Foundations' prizes for fiction. His first two books for young adults, Striking Out, a 1994 Best Book for Young Adults {ALA}, and Farm Team, a 1996 Best Book for Young Adults {ALA} and winner of the 1996 IRA Distinguished Book Award for Young Adults, are about Billy Baggs, as well as Hard Ball.

Will Weaver lives in Bemidji, Minnesota with his wife and two children.

Review

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About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0060271213
• ISBN 13: 9780060271213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230