The Baseball Card Kid - Hardcover

Osterweil, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590785266 ISBN 13: 9781590785263

Publisher: Front Street, Incorporated, 2009

Synopsis

A valuable baseball card, a sinking ship, a distant planet, and vampire tales fill this fast-paced time-travel story.

Brian has felt guilty ever since he destroyed his father's rare Honus Wagner baseball card at the age of four.  When the opportunity to acquire a magical time-traveling bracelet presents itself, Brian and his best friend Paul jump at the chance.  Using this fantastic device they warp back to the doomed Titanic, the distant reaches of the universe, and a castle in darkest Transylvania in a breathless chase for one of the world's rarest antiquities. Can they make it home with the million-dollar baseball card and make Brian's father happy again?

This sequel to the Disney-Award winning The Comic Book Kid can be read as a standalone book, or as the exciting continuation of the adventures of Brian and Paul.

About this title

About the Author

Adam Osterweil graduated from Cornell University with a BA in classics and from Stony Brook University with an MA in liberal studies. He teaches junior high English at Springs School in Springs, New York. He is the author of The Amulet of Komondor and The Lost Treasure of Talus Scree.

Craig Smith is one of Australia's most popular and prolific children's book artists, having illustrated more than two hundred titles. Billy the Punk and Bob the Builder and the Elves are just two of his award-winning books. He lives outside of Melbourne in southern Australia.

From the Back Cover

"Fun and quick reading for elementary and middle school students who are fascinated with time travel, this sequel to Comic Book Kid (Front Street, 2001) offers the reader such amusing tidbits as the magical phrase "SPANKY-SPANKY-SPANKYFLEEBER- FOO" which may malfunction and instead of good luck produce a tuna fish sandwich. Laugh-aloud adventures for the younger reader, this is a novel that also begs to be read to a class. They will titter and guffaw. The author, a junior high teacher of English, knows his audience well. Prolific Australian illustrator Craig Smith contributes great black and white sketches that add to the amusement." --Catholic Library World

"This story will be interesting to boys who like mystery and science fiction." --The Lorgnette, Heart of Texas Reviews

Reviews

Friends Brian and Paul, who last appeared in The Comic Book Kid (2001), travel through time to try to bring back the Honus Wagner baseball card, worth millions. Lore has it that the card went down with the Titanic. In the course of their adventures, Brian and Paul save the ship, but they unwittingly spare a vampire, who morphs into a civilization-destroying monster. The avalanche of zaniness nearly overwhelms the story, but there are a number of funny lines, which, along with the manic illustrations, should keep young readers laughing. Grades 4-6. --Todd Morning

Edition details

• Publisher: Front Street, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590785266
• ISBN 13: 9781590785263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Smith Craig
• Number of pages: 199