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Griffith, Graham, and Ruby's father passed away in the war. And now they must join their mother and their father's wartime traveling baseball team, The Travelin' Nine, on a tour of America to raise money. No one will tell the kids why the team needs money so badly. Their only clue is a baseball with a hole the size of an acorn in it that their Uncle Owen gave to them the night of their father's funeral. They know very little about its significance except that their father made it with his own two hands and carried it with him throughout the war. And when all three kids hold the ball, strange things begin to happen...
Synopsis
In the late 1800s, a baseball with strange powers belonging to their late father works wonders for three children and a travelling baseball team which must raise $10,000.
Synopsis
Discovering more and more clues as they travel with the Barnstormers, Griffith, Graham, and Ruby begin to understand their uncle's cryptic message and the importance of their father's treasured baseball in their city to city adventure to keep America's favorite pastime going strong. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.
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New York Times bestseller
Loren Long
and
Texas Bluebonnet Award winner
Phil Bildner
create a modern-day parable wherein three siblings embark on an adventure of a lifetime and discover the strength in family, the power of faith and the true magic of baseball.
About the Author
#1 New York Times Best Seller LOREN LONG’s illustrations have received two gold medals from the Society of Illustrators and his first picture book, Angela Johnson’s I Dream of Trains, won the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite Award for Illustrations and his inspired interpretation of Walt Whitman’s When I Heard Learn’d Astronomer was a Golden Kite Honor. A much sought after editorial artist whose work has appeared in Times, Sports Illustrated, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and Atlantic Monthly, Loren is widely known for the illustrations in Madonna’s #1 New York Times Best Seller Mr. Peabody’s Apples. And Watty Piper’s The Little Engine That Could. He lives in West Chester, Ohio, with his wife, Tracy, and two young sons, Griffith and Graham. Phil Bildner is the author of the New York Times bestselling Sluggers! series, the Texas Bluebonnet Award-winning Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy and its companion, The Shot Heard 'Round the World, both illustrated by C. F. Payne; and Twenty-One Elephants, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. His latest picture book is Turkey Bowl, illustrated by C.F Payne. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Table of Contents
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
The Piggy Town Showdown
Chapter 2
Spreading the Word
Chapter 3
Game Day!
Chapter 4
Graham Takes His Cut
Chapter 5
Warming Up
Chapter 6
Play Ball!
Chapter 7
Top of the First
Chapter 8
Barnstormers at Bat
Chapter 9
From Out of Nowhere
Chapter 10
A Looming Darkness
Chapter 11
How Could This Be?
Chapter 12
Uncle Owen Speaks
Chapter 13
Fogs and Trains
Chapter 14
Huzzah!
Chapter 15
Something Else....
Chapter 16
Team Meeting
Chapter 17
Off to Louisville