King of the Mound: My Summer with Satchel Paige
by Tooke, Wes
Historical FictionParents & Parental FiguresDaughters, Sons, & Nonbinary Offspring2012 Spring ElementaryJunior Library Guild SelectionBaseball
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AR Book Level
5.6
AR Points
6
Word Count
39,582
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
149825 EN
About this book
Twelve-year-old Nick loves baseball, so after a year in the hospital fighting polio and with a brace on one leg, Nick takes a job with the team for which his father is catcher and gets to see the great pitcher, Satchel Paige, play during the 1935 season.