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Keeping score

In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them.

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Main Author: Park, Linda Sue
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Clarion Books, c2008.
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Baseball > Juvenile fiction.
Family > New York (State) > New York > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them.
Physical Description:202 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Awards:A Junior Library Guild selection
ISBN:0618927999 (reinforced)
9780618927999 (reinforced)
Author Notes:Linda Sue Park was born in Urbana, Illinois on March 25, 1960. She received a B.A. in English from Stanford University. After graduating, she worked as a public-relations writer for a major oil company for two years. She obtained advanced degrees in literature from Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland and from the University of London. Before becoming a full-time author, she held numerous jobs including working for an advertising agency, teaching English as a second language to college students, and working as a food journalist. Her first book, Seesaw Girl, was published in 1999. Her other books include The Kite Fighters, Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems), and A Single Shard, which won the 2002 Newbery Medal. She also wrote Storm Warning, which is the ninth book in the 39 Clues series. Her title A Long Walk to Water made the New York Times bestseller list.

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