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Barnstormers: Game 1 (The Sluggers #1)
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 n...more
Hardcover, 144 pages
Published
February 27th 2007
by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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If this book (and series) had come out 20 years ago, I would've bought it (and them) for my son, so I could read them too. I'd only heard of the series after reading a review in last Sunday's paper of Book #5, which is set in New Orleans (each book takes the traveling baseball team to a different city). So, as I was interested in the N.O. baseball connection, I decided to see what the series was all about.
It is very well-written, and you and your baseball-loving youngster (if you have one) will...more
It is very well-written, and you and your baseball-loving youngster (if you have one) will...more
May 04, 2011
Barbara
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Recommended to Barbara by:
Teresa!!
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baseball
This book is unlike anything I would usually read, but it was well recommended to me by a respected GR Friend. I wish this, which is part of the Sluggers series, had been written when my two sons were involved in Little League. Perhaps my 5 year old grandson will have an interest in baseball and I can provide him with the set.
This was a quick little read for me, providing a pleasant interlude in a busy day. It was the first of the books, originally entitled Barnstormers: Game 1 . Set in 1899,...more
This was a quick little read for me, providing a pleasant interlude in a busy day. It was the first of the books, originally entitled Barnstormers: Game 1 . Set in 1899,...more
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Reviewed by Sally Kruger, aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com
Here's the beginning of great new series for kids. BARNSTORMERS: THE TALES OF THE TRAVELIN' NINE is written by Phil Bildner and illustrated by Loren Long.
Set in 1899, BARNSTORMERS brings historic baseball to life for readers. The story centers around three siblings, Griffith, Ruby, and Graham. Still recovering from the death of their father, the three children are traveling with the colorful ball team, the Travelin' Nine. Their ex...more
Here's the beginning of great new series for kids. BARNSTORMERS: THE TALES OF THE TRAVELIN' NINE is written by Phil Bildner and illustrated by Loren Long.
Set in 1899, BARNSTORMERS brings historic baseball to life for readers. The story centers around three siblings, Griffith, Ruby, and Graham. Still recovering from the death of their father, the three children are traveling with the colorful ball team, the Travelin' Nine. Their ex...more
Ahh...baseball,one of my least favorite sports.After reading this book it became one of my favorite sports. Barnstormers Book 1 Is The Is the beginning of my #1 favorite series the Barnstormers(Now named Sluggers) is an amazing book and the best one in books 1,2,3,.It deserves very nice,has amazing storytelling and a little fantasy with the magic baseball.Overall The Barnstormers Book 1 is one of the best books ever
This is the most underrated and least well know sports series ever in my opinion. I couldn't put them down and when they changed the name of the series to Slugger after book three which (spoiler alert)ends in a cliff hanger, I spent a year looking in every book store I went in to find them. This one in particular isn't the best in the series but it is very good!
I really didn't care for this book. I was pretty much confused for the whole first half, I think because there wasn't enough back story. Which, I know is hard in a book with 133 pages. I also really didn't care for the audio version. There were quite a lot of historical baseball terms used (and, yes, that part was pretty cool) but the narrator kept inserting the modern equivalents directly after each term. It really broke up the flow of the book. It would have been better to have a glossary at t...more
Kind of cute. I'm not that into baseball, but it was fun to see the old terminology from the turn of the 20th century. Ends on a definite cliffhanger, but I'm not sure I care enough about the people to read the next one. Cute for kids, though.
Children's book about baseball. This begins a series and doesn't conclude. It is continued in the next volume. It didn't hold my interest at all. It is a combination of baseball, children, and twilight zone.
This book was more like a first chapter. Unless a kid was only interested in reading baseball books, I can't imagine that they would be motivated enough to pursue this series.
Interesting premise.
The setting has a lot of potential.
Not a great start to a series.
I'm going to have to read the second book before I can really pass judgment.
The setting has a lot of potential.
Not a great start to a series.
I'm going to have to read the second book before I can really pass judgment.
This is an old-time baseball story with mystery and fantasy.
Mar 22, 2012
Mary
marked it as to-read
Good example of prefaratory materials
SM
I liked this book because it was for like little kids playing. It was like back in the days look. And i never really saw how it looked to thats why i liked it.
I like this book because it's a lot of genres at once: sports, historical fiction, mystery, and fantasy. It has something for everybody
"Never give up and always reach for your goals"
This is one Ezra read and liked.
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Sreevidhya
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Reilly
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Mar 08, 2011 04:43pm
Now that you say it, I do remember baseball being a part of "Gilead" too.
Mar 08, 2011 05:56pm