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A big day for baseball  Cover Image Book Book

A big day for baseball / by Mary Pope Osborne ; jacket illustration by Sal Murdocca ; interior illustrations by AG Ford.

Osborne, Mary Pope. (Author). Ford, AG. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1524713082
  • ISBN: 9781524713089
  • Physical Description: 75 pages : illustrations.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, [2017]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Stepping Stone book".
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 18.99
Subject: Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 > Juvenile fiction.
Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) > Juvenile fiction.
Jack (Fictitious character : Osborne) > Juvenile fiction.
Annie (Fictitious character : Osborne) > Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Tree houses > Juvenile fiction.
Time travel > Juvenile fiction.
Magic > Juvenile fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Baseball stories.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cookstown Branch J FIC Osbor 31681020055091 JFIC Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    Transported through time to 1947 to participate in a history-making baseball game, Jack and Annie don magical baseball caps to bolster their skills while learning what is so special about the game and its star player, Jackie Robinson. Simultaneous eBook.
  • Random House, Inc.
    Meet Jackie Robinson and solve a mystery in the #1 bestselling Magic Tree House chapter book series!
     
    PLAY BALL! Jack and Annie aren’t great baseball players . . . yet! Then Morgan the librarian gives them magical baseball caps that will make them experts. They just need to wear the caps to a special ballgame in Brooklyn, New York. The magic tree house whisks them back to 1947!
     
    When they arrive, Jack and Annie find out that they will be batboys in the game—not ballplayers. What exactly does Morgan want them to learn? And what’s so special about this game? They only have nine innings to find out!
     
    Discover history, mystery, humor, and baseball in this one-of-a-kind adventure in Mary Pope Osborne’s New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series lauded by parents and teachers as books that encourage reading.
     
    Magic Tree House books, with fiction and nonfiction titles, are perfect for parents and teachers using the Core Curriculum. With a blend of magic, adventure, history, science, danger, and cuteness, the topics range from kid pleasers (pirates, the Titanic, pandas) to curriculum perfect (rain forest, American Revolution, Abraham Lincoln) to seasonal shoo-ins (Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving). There is truly something for everyone here!

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