The Toilet Paper Tigers - Softcover

Korman, Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590462318 ISBN 13: 9780590462310

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1995

Synopsis

Forget about winning, they're just trying to score!

Corey Johnson never dreamed Little League could be so humiliating. But that was before he joined the Feather Soft Tigers.

It's bad enough that the team uniforms have pictures of toilet paper on them-thanks to their sponsor. But with a catcher who's afraid of the ball, a right fielder who falls asleep during the games, and a coach who knows zero about baseball, it looks like the Tigers are going straight down the toilet!

About this title

About the Author:

Gordon Korman is the author of The 39 Clues Book 2: One False Note, which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and The 39 Clues Book #8: The Emperor's Code. Gordon has written more than sixty books for kids and young adults, including Zoobreak, Swindle, and Son of the Mob, as well as the On the Run series and the Island, Everest, Dive, and Kidnapped trilogies. A native of Ontario, Canada, Korman now lives with his family in Long Island, New York.

From Booklist:

Gr. 4-7. The broad, almost cinematic situational comedy that has become Korman's trademark is fully in place in his newest novel, which uses a baseball backdrop to attract readers. According to Corey Johnson, being Little League leftovers and sporting uniforms with toilet paper logos (their team is sponsored by Feather-Soft Bathroom Tissue) is bad enough without having a bossy girl managing the team. But that's the deal for the summer when Kristy, Coach Pendergast's 12-year-old granddaughter (decked out in fatigue pants, a New York City T-shirt, and Day-Glo sunglasses), blows into Spooner, Texas, speaking what seems at first to be a foreign language: "Yo . . . 'Tsup? . . . Word . . . You should spend a few days in New York. Reality sandwich, man." It is definitely not love at first sight, but as it turns out, obnoxious Kristy's pushy management style is just what's needed to make a fat second baseman go on a diet, cure a catcher afraid to catch, wake up a fielder who sleeps on the job, and bring the team into the play-offs. With plenty of obvious misguided psychologizing and Three Stooges-style antics, this freewheeling baseball yarn is laugh-out-loud funny from first page to last. Stephanie Zvirin

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0590462318
• ISBN 13: 9780590462310
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 208