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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16702.Summerland_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Summerland: A Novel" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1166740677m/16702.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16702.Summerland_A_Novel?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Summerland: A Novel</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2715.Michael_Chabon">Michael Chabon</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11633648?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/><i>Summerland</i>, by Michael Chabon, is a baseball-themed novel about Ethan Feld and his friends'(Jenifer T. Rideout, Thor Wignutt, Cinquefoil the ferister, Taffy the sasquach, Cutbelly the werefox, Grim the giant, Pettipaw the wererat, and Spider-Rose the ferisher) attempt to defeat the evil Coyote (he's not a coyote, that's just his name). In this novel, Ethen starts out as a kid who is not that good at baseball and is on the worst team in Summerland. His dad loves baseball, so Ethan tries harder to get better. But no matter how hard he tries he cant seem to get any better, so he runs off in the middle of the game unnoticed by anyone to go for a walk on the beach. He sees two men who seem to be up to no good. The two men spot Ethan, so he runs back to the game. When he gets back, he sees that his team is actually about to win. He hopes the coach doesn't send him in because he knows he'll ruin it. And, of corse, the coach sends him in and he messes it up. Later on in the story, he gets better at baseball and has to win a game with his friends (mentioned earlier) to save the world. <br/> <br/>The author's purpose is to show us that, with hard effort, you can accomplish anything. The book uses, according to TIME magazene, "Norse mythology, Native American folklore, American fables, Homeric myth, Tolkein and C. S. Lewis to teach enduring lessons about finding strength within yourself." <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/320913?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>