Lucky : Maris, Mantle, and my best summer ever / Wes Tooke.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2010.Edition: 1st edDescription: 180 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 1416986634 (hardcover) :
- 9781416986638 (hardcover) :
- Mantle, Mickey, 1931-1995 -- Juvenile fiction
- Maris, Roger, 1934-1985 -- Juvenile fiction
- New York Yankees (Baseball team) -- Juvenile fiction
- Bat boys -- Juvenile fiction
- Moving, Household -- Juvenile fiction
- Stepfamilies -- Juvenile fiction
- Baseball -- Fiction
- Sports -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- A Junior Library Guild selection
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Children's Book
|
Main Library | Children's Fiction | Tooke, Wes | Available | 33111006236000 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Louis isn't very good at playing baseball, but he knows and loves the game more than anybody. He loves the purity of the sport, the sound of the crack of a bat, and the smell of freshly cut grass in the stadium. And more than anything, he loves the New York Yankees. So when he becomes a bat boy for the team during the summer of 1961, it is a dream come true. Lucky gives readers baseline box seats to one of the most memorable seasons in sports history, and as Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris compete in their legendary home-run race, Louis learns that the heroes he looks up to can teach him life lessons that will change him forever.
Louis, who loves baseball despite being the worst stickball player in White Plains, New York, sees his opportunity to be bat boy for the 1961 Yankees team as the perfect way to escape the problems of his father's remarriage and moving to the suburbs.
Ages 8 up.
Lexile: 860.
A Junior Library Guild selection