Babe and me : a baseball card adventure
Record details
- ISBN: 0380977397
- ISBN: 0380977397
- ISBN: 9780380977390
- ISBN: 0613537939
- ISBN: 9780613537933
- ISBN: 0380805049
- ISBN: 9780380805044
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Physical Description:
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161 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Publisher: New York : Avon Books, 2000.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "An Avon Camelot book." |
Summary, etc.: | With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that home run in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs. |
Target Audience Note: | 5.2 Follett Library Resources 5-8 |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.3 4.0 36037. 8.0 Reading Counts RC 3-5 4.8 20464. |
Awards Note: | Nutmeg Award Winner, [Intermediate], 2004. |
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Genre: | Time-travel fiction. |
Topic Heading: | Summer Reading 2007 rxb |
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Available copies
- 51 of 53 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Easton Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 53 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Easton Public Library | J GUTMAN (Text) | 37777000568295 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Electronic resources
BookList Review
Babe and Me : A Baseball Card Adventure
Booklist
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Gr. 4^-7. Fans of Joe Stoshack's previous time-traveling baseball adventures, Honus and Me (1997) and Jackie and Me (1999), are familiar with this Little Leaguer's talent for using baseball cards to send himself back in history. This time Joe brings his dad with him to the 1932 World Series to answer one question: In game three, did Babe Ruth call his famous home run before he hit the ball? As in the previous titles, Gutman weaves a delightfully improbable fantasy from actual events, with the difference between fact and fiction explained in a concluding note. Father and son land first in New York, meet and dine with the Babe, and then move on to Chicago in time for the legendary homer. Gutman uses the Depression as an evocative backdrop, but his attempt to introduce the Holocaust (via a newspaper headline about Hitler being named chancellor) seems forced. Still, readers will enjoy the action, the rich baseball lore, and the sense of adventure. --Gillian Engberg
The Horn Book Review
Babe and Me : A Baseball Card Adventure
The Horn Book
(c) Copyright The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Thirteen-year-old Joe, who time traveled into baseball's past in two previous books, visits 1932 to learn if Babe Ruth really predicted his legendary World Series homer. Joe's father comes along, too, hoping to make a financial profit from the experience. The book convincingly captures Babe's oversized personality, but nearly every plot turn is contrived to get Joe smack in the center of things. From HORN BOOK Fall 2000, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
School Library Journal Review
Babe and Me : A Baseball Card Adventure
School Library Journal
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Gr 4-7-Once again, 13-year-old Joe Stoshack time travels and meets baseball greats of the past. In this book, he takes his father along, as they attempt to discover whether Babe Ruth really "called his shot" in the 1932 World Series. The pecuniary possibilities of the adventure are not overlooked. His dad's main interest in going back in time is to make a killing in the sports-memorabilia market. A bag full of baseballs autographed by Babe Ruth would be worth a fortune in today's market, and Joe and his dad try to cash in. Their plans go awry, but they do manage to meet the slugger and experience his outsized personality. True to history, he remains an elusive figure here. At times, he is portrayed as rather lonely and maudlin and at other times he's a caricature-especially in a gross, exaggerated eating scene: "Babe Ruth hit big, and he missed big, and he lived big. And I can tell this from personal experience, he also puked big." The book does evoke the importance of a sports hero to an America mired in the depths of the Depression. And, as so frequently happens in baseball novels, the adventure proves to be the catalyst for a new understanding between father and son. This is an entertaining romp through a part of baseball history.-Todd Morning, Schaumburg Township Public Library, IL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publishers Weekly Review
Babe and Me : A Baseball Card Adventure
Publishers Weekly
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A boy and his father zip back in time to discover whether Babe Ruth actually predicted his home run in Game Three of the 1932 World Series. "Gutman's account of Joey's strained relationship with his divorced father and his portrait of the intriguing, revered slugger against the backdrop of Depression-era New York are equally skillful," noted PW. Ages 8-12. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved