Keeping Score

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Keeping Score Sale Trade Paper Linda Sue Park

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Product details 224 pages Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) - 2011-02-26 English 9780547248974 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Ingram, Although Maggie doesn't play baseball, she knows the game. But even with Maggie's support, the Brooklyn Dodgers fail to win the Series. Nothing Maggie does helps. Maybe it doesn't make any difference at all. Or maybe it does.

"Synopsis" by Firebrand,

Both Maggie Fortini and her brother, Joey-Mick, were named for baseball great Joe DiMaggio. Unlike Joey-Mick, Maggie doesnt play baseball—but at almost ten years old, she is a dyed-in-the-wool fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Maggie can recite all the players statistics and understands the subtleties of the game. Unfortunately, Jim Maine is a Giants fan, but its Jim who teaches Maggie the fine art of scoring a baseball game. Not only can she revisit every play of every inning, but by keeping score she feels shes more than just a fan: shes helping her team.

Jim is drafted into the army and sent to Korea, and although Maggie writes to him often, his silence is just one of a string of disappointments—being a Brooklyn Dodgers fan in the early 1950s meant season after season of near misses and year after year of dashed hopes. But Maggie goes on trying to help the Dodgers, and when she finds out that Jim needs help, too, shes determined to provide it. Against a background of major league baseball and the Korean War on the home front, Maggie looks for, and finds, a way to make a difference.

Even those readers who think they dont care about baseball will be drawn into the world of the true and ardent fan. Linda Sue Parks captivating story will, of course, delight those who are already keeping score.