Champ

by Marcia Thornton Jones

Riley, a fifth-grader whose father is a former football star, finds he must choose between training a dog he has come to love and the baseball team his father has pushed him to join.

Promises to Keep

by Sharon Robinson

This biography by Jackie Robinson's daughter combines her words with his letters and family photos to paint a vivid portrait of one of the most famous baseball players of all time.

Safe at Home

by Sharon Robinson

After ten-year-old Jumper's father dies, he and his mother move from Connecticut to his grandmother's inner-city home in Harlem. Jumper cares little for his new home and even less about attending the...

Swindle

by Gordon Korman

When Griffin Bing accidentally discovers a rare Babe Ruth card at a condemned property, he thinks his family's money problems are solved. After a shop owner cheats him out of the card's true value,...

Griffin & Co. Adventures series: book 1

The Toilet Paper Tigers

by Gordon Korman

When his Little League team gets a coach who knows nothing about baseball, seventh-grader Corey is dismayed to see the team taken over by the coach's pushy twelve-year-old granddaughter.

Penny from Heaven

by Jennifer L. Holm

In 1953, eleven-year-old Penny struggles with the tension between her mother's family and her deceased father's family. Will a tragic accident bring the two families together?