Six Innings
By James Preller
(Square Fish, Paperback, 9780312602406, 176pp.)
Publication Date: March 2, 2010
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Boys / Men, Health & Daily Living - Diseases, Sports & Recreation - Baseball
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It’s the biggest game of the season, and twenty-three boys are ready to play. They’re checking each other out, plotting their strategies, and psyching themselves up. But one kid isn’t on the field. Sam Reiser, the announcer, is sitting it out this season. He can’t play, but he’s not about to miss a game. And watching over it all is exciting—the acrobatic catches, the incredible hits, the devastating errors—it’s just not the same. Sam’s friend Mike knows how he feels. Mike’s out in right field, wishing Sam could join him. Because this isn’t just a big game. It’s the championship—the biggest game of their lives.
JAMES PRELLER is the author of the popular Jigsaw Jones mystery series, which has sold over 10 million copies (of 32 titles) since 1998. In addition to writing full-time, he coaches Little League and plays in a men’s hardball league. His next book, Bystander, was published by Feiwel and Friends in Fall 2009. James lives in Delmar, New York, and you can visit him at www.jamespreller.com.
“Six Innings made a baseball lover out of me. . . . James Preller has a gift for description so that even an ignoramus like me could picture the game in my mind’s eye. The narrative sprints with staccato sentences and shorthand metaphors.”—The New York Times Book Review
“The novel goes beyond fastballs and first base to the heart of the game—the players—in a way even non-sports fans will love.”—USA Today
“Perceptive and funny, sketches introduce us to the players while the nail-biting action keeps the pages turning. Kids will be nodding in agreement at the truths laid bare.”—The Miami Herald, picked as one of their Best Kids' Books of the Year
“Preller raises his game with this perceptive group portrait of boys who play Little League baseball . . . Kids will be nodding in agreement at the truths laid bare. If Judy Blume could write a book about Little League, about its players’ deepest fears and secret dreams, it might come out something like this.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“Dishing up a rare example of a character-driven tale that is also suspenseful and exciting, the author of the Jigsaw Jones series chronicles a magnificent championship game between two Little League teams that is as much about the players as the plays.”—Booklist, Starred Review
“This is a book whose emotional pull creeps up on you, pitch by pitch. Organized around the six innings of a Little League championship game, the story will appeal to longtime fans of baseball as well as those who know nothing about the sport . . . this is a book as much about on-the-field action as it is life lessons. . . . Like the boys on the field and in the press box, readers will feel this is a game to remember.”—Jennifer M. Brown, Shelf Awareness
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