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I'm not a boy, or a huge baseball fan, but I still enjoyed the book. The characters were honest, even with their flaws, and I never felt like I was being presented with a stereotypical pre-teen. The Native American themes seem to have bothered some other readers, but for the most part it worked for me. Growing up in Wisconsin that's the sort of thing you hear a lot of, so it didn't seem like a corny device.

As a side note, I was lucky to read a very early draft of the book, and I was really pleased to see the new ending Scaletta had written. It really made the story come full circle.]]>