From: Nick Glass (TeachingBooks.net) <"Nick>
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:18:06 -0500

Love this thread. Thanks, CCBC, for giving me a reading list that I want for the summer!

For those that like baseball, the book that had me in stitches (both in reading to myself and later reading aloud with my partner) is a little-known book by Newbery and National Book Award recipient Phil Hoose called Perfect Once Removed: When Baseball Was All the World to Me. It was published for adults, but a non-issue cross-over book.

It is the memoir of his experiences growing up while his cousin is Don Drysdale (who pitched a perfect game for the Yankees in the 56 World Series). This and Sherman Alexie's True Diary of a Part-time Indian are perhaps two of the most poignant, yet laugh-till-I-cry books i've read in a years.


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