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In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his fa...

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Main Author: Shang, Wendy Wan Long (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scholastic Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Chinese American families > Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh > Juvenile fiction.
Traffic accidents > Juvenile fiction.
Bereavement > Juvenile fiction.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Little League baseball > Juvenile fiction.
Baseball stories > Juvenile.
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Summary:In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share and bring them back to life.
Physical Description:250 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780545609562
0545609569
Author Notes:Wendy Wan-Long Shang is the author of THE GREAT WALL OF LUCY WU, which was awarded the Asian/Pacific American Library Association Award for Children's Literature. She lives with her family in the suburbs of Washington, DC.

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