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Ages 12 & up • <strong>Young</strong> Adult Reads<br />
John H. Ritter<br />
THE BOY WHO SAVED BASEBALL<br />
“Ritter delivers a baseball tale of<br />
legendary dimension, featuring several<br />
larger-than-life characters and a team of<br />
ordinary young folk tackling a seemingly<br />
insurmountable challenge in defense of a<br />
worthy cause…Ritter dishes up another<br />
stellar read — topped off by a convincing<br />
Web site…apparently fabricated for<br />
the book, that adds verisimilitude.”<br />
—BooklistH<br />
Rec: BLH, C, K, PWH, SLJ, V<br />
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 224 pp. 2005<br />
978-0-14-240286-3 $6.99<br />
CHOOSING UP SIDES<br />
“At 13 years old, Jake Bledsoe is a southpaw<br />
who can toss a rock or a baseball<br />
harder, father, and more accurately than<br />
any kid in his class. But his father, a fireand-brimstone<br />
preacher, forbids him the<br />
use of his left hand. Ritter captures the<br />
feel of a small Ohio town in 1921 as well<br />
as the lure of the ball field.”—Booklist<br />
Rec: BL, C, CE, HG, PW, SLJ, V<br />
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 176 pp. 2000<br />
978-0-698-11840-9 $5.99<br />
OVER THE WALL<br />
“The author tackles tough subjects<br />
relating to violence in sports, religious<br />
hypocrisy and the Vietnam War while<br />
creating layers of metaphors that neatly<br />
unfold as the story progresses.”<br />
—Publishers Weekly<br />
Rec: BL, PW, SLJ<br />
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 320 pp. 2002<br />
978-0-698-11931-4 $6.99<br />
◆ 200<br />
RAYBON, PATRICIA<br />
MY FIRST WHITE FRIEND<br />
Confessions on Race, Love &<br />
Forgiveness<br />
“The author’s first confession is that until<br />
recently she hated white people—‘deeply<br />
and smoothly and naturally,’ she says,<br />
‘with a pure assurance that I had a right<br />
to hate.’ Her desire to be rid of this feeling<br />
led to the essays that make up this<br />
book, her aim being to ‘trace my journey<br />
from racial rage to racial reasoning, from<br />
hate to love.’ This is a search one can<br />
only recommend.” —Hettie Jones,<br />
The Washington Post Book World<br />
PENGUIN<br />
5 1/16 x 7 3/4 256 pp. 1997<br />
978-0-14-024436-6 $14.00<br />
RICE, DAVID TALBOT<br />
CRAZY LOCO<br />
“Crazy Loco collects nine stories rooted<br />
in everyday life in a small town in South<br />
Texas. Like the best short fiction, they<br />
reveal their deepest truths obliquely, in<br />
the details of small moments and gestures…Rice…blends<br />
humor and precise<br />
detail, creating believable, imperfect,<br />
complex characters that are at once<br />
rowdy, subversive, and devoted to family<br />
and tradition.” —Booklist<br />
Rec: BL, SLJ<br />
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 144 pp. 2003<br />
978-0-14-250056-9 $5.99<br />
RICHTER, HANS PETER<br />
FRIEDRICH<br />
The tragic story of a Jewish boy in Germany<br />
during the 1930s, this award-winning<br />
novel is “superb, sensitive, honest,<br />
and compelling, symbolizing juvenile<br />
fiction at its best.” —The New York Times<br />
Rec: AN, H, NYT, SLJ<br />
4 3/8 x 7 1/8 152 pp. 1987<br />
978-0-14-032205-7 $4.99<br />
ROTTMAN, S. L.<br />
HERO<br />
Sean is the son of a deadbeat dad and an<br />
abusive mother. He doesn’ t think he<br />
has anything to live for, so he’s reckless—until<br />
he gets arrested. A coming<br />
of age story that grapples with questions<br />
teenagers ask themselves each day<br />
— What is a hero? Whom can I trust?<br />
Who am I?<br />
Rec: PW, V<br />
4 3/8 x 7 1/8 176 pp. 2000<br />
978-0-14-130701-5 $5.99<br />
ROUGH WATERS<br />
When their parents are killed in a car<br />
accident, Scott and his older brother<br />
Gregg go to live with their uncle who<br />
runs a white-water rafting company in<br />
Colorado. “With the thrill of the rapids,<br />
realistic family dynamics, a little romance,<br />
and likable characters, this book is a great<br />
read.” —School Library Journal<br />
Rec: SLJ, V<br />
4 3/8 x 7 1/8 224 pp. 2000<br />
978-0-14-130703-9 $6.99<br />
STETSON<br />
Seventeen-year-old Stetson meets the sister<br />
he never knew he had, and together<br />
they try to make sense of their pasts. Can<br />
these two wary siblings find anything<br />
in common, and try to build a future<br />
together? “[T]eens will be cheering him<br />
on to the end.” —School Library Journal<br />
Rec: BL, C, K, SLJ<br />
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 224 pp. 2003<br />
978-0-14-250194-8 $5.99<br />
RYAN, SARA<br />
EMPRESS OF THE WORLD<br />
“Fifteen-year-old Nicola is spending the<br />
summer at an institute for gifted youth,<br />
where she’s studying archaeology. To her<br />
surprise, she falls in love with another<br />
girl, Battle, a lovely dancer with long<br />
hair, and Battle with her.…Ryan has a<br />
good handle on her characters and on<br />
her story, which is romantic without<br />
being explicit and feels very much like<br />
today.” —Booklist<br />
Rec: BL, KH, PW, SLJ<br />
5 x 7 5/16 224 pp. 2003<br />
978-0-14-250059-0 $7.99
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