Deschutes Public Library

Heat, Mike Lupica

eng

libretto or text

not applicable

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940L, Lexile

fiction

Heat

78619283

Mike Lupica

Accelerated Reader, MG, 5.3, 9, 9, 106285

Michael Arroyo grows up in the shadows of hallowed Yankee Stadium, a boy forever on the outside looking in. His only chance to see his field of dreams? Pitch his Bronx all-star team to the district finals and a shot at the Little League World Series. But there is a problem. Michael is good, too good. Rival coaches and players can't believe a boy could be this good and be only twelve years old. And Michael has no way to prove it, no mother, no father, and a birth certificate that is stuck home in his native Cuba. If the people from social services find out his secret, he will have an even worse problem: being separated from the only family he knows, his older brother Carlos. Baseball can be a game of heroes, of champions who refuse to lose. Or it can be a field of crushed dreams. For one boy, the game is about to turn serious

pre adolescent

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