Curve Ball (Lorimer Sports Stories) - Softcover
Tom Poulos is sure his baseball team, the Jarvis Badgers, will make the Toronto playoffs this year.
He's looking forward to a summer of playing little league and watching big league ball, until he's sent to Winnipeg to stay with relatives he hasn't even met. Winnipeg doesn't have a major league team and his Uncle Nick, a first-generation migrant from Greece, is strange in an old-world kind of way. Tom soon finds, however, that a smaller field still offers plenty of challenges--to play and to learn.
Curve Ball shows how unexpected changes--in sport and in life--offer opportunities to learn and to grow.
He's looking forward to a summer of playing little league and watching big league ball, until he's sent to Winnipeg to stay with relatives he hasn't even met. Winnipeg doesn't have a major league team and his Uncle Nick, a first-generation migrant from Greece, is strange in an old-world kind of way. Tom soon finds, however, that a smaller field still offers plenty of challenges--to play and to learn.
Curve Ball shows how unexpected changes--in sport and in life--offer opportunities to learn and to grow.
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About the Author:
JOHN DANAKAS is the author of four children's novels, all published by Lorimer. Hockey Night in Transcona was an Ontario Silver Birch Award finalist. Curve Ball, Lizzie's Soccer Showdown, and Hockey Heroes are all Canadian Children's Book Centre "Our Choice" selections.
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"Author John Danakas brings coaching and writing experience to this first novel. He creates a likeable character in Tom, whose resentment and sullen attitude are as believable as his excitement and anxieties over baseball.... Curve Ball should be well received by sports fans." (Jennifer Johnson Canadian Materials)
"Good characterization and strong, believable sports action.... A recommended purchase." (Dave Jenkinson Canadian Book Review Annual)
"Fun and immensely enjoyable.... Ball fans will enjoy this book." (Ken Setterington Quill & Quire)
"Plenty of local color... Danakas..shows his familiarity with the sport in plenty of action scenes in the ball park....fast paced reading.
Aimed especially at boys of an age that would often rather play sports than read about them, it fills a niche that is not over-crowded." (Helen Norrie Winnipeg Free Press)
"Curve Ball by John Danakas is for older readers who still enjoy chapter books... fast-moving play descriptions by Danakas give the book an added pinch of authenticity that matches Tom's playing." (Joan Weller Ottawa Citizen)
"Great story for baseball loving middle graders." (Linda Limbach, Educator at Orange Schools, NetGalley Reviewer 2015-04-12)
"The simple, straightforward plot will encourage reluctant readers to continue...The easy dialogue and well written and focussed attention to baseball will keep sports fans interested." (Corinne Mathews, Resource Links)
"Good characterization and strong, believable sports action.... A recommended purchase." (Dave Jenkinson Canadian Book Review Annual)
"Fun and immensely enjoyable.... Ball fans will enjoy this book." (Ken Setterington Quill & Quire)
"Plenty of local color... Danakas..shows his familiarity with the sport in plenty of action scenes in the ball park....fast paced reading.
Aimed especially at boys of an age that would often rather play sports than read about them, it fills a niche that is not over-crowded." (Helen Norrie Winnipeg Free Press)
"Curve Ball by John Danakas is for older readers who still enjoy chapter books... fast-moving play descriptions by Danakas give the book an added pinch of authenticity that matches Tom's playing." (Joan Weller Ottawa Citizen)
"Great story for baseball loving middle graders." (Linda Limbach, Educator at Orange Schools, NetGalley Reviewer 2015-04-12)
"The simple, straightforward plot will encourage reluctant readers to continue...The easy dialogue and well written and focussed attention to baseball will keep sports fans interested." (Corinne Mathews, Resource Links)
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- PublisherLorimer
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 1550284339
- ISBN 13 9781550284331
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages153
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