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Available
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Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
Series
Collections
Publication
HarperColl (2002), Edition: Reprint, 208 pages
Subjects
Awards
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2004)
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (2000)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2002)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Junior — 2003)
Newbery Medal (Honor Book — 2001)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
Colorado Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2005)
The White Ravens (2001)
NCTE Adventuring with Books: A Booklist for Pre-K—Grade 6 (13th Edition: 1999-2001)
Notable Children's Book (2001)
Language
Original publication date
2000
Physical description
208 p.; 7.6 inches
ISBN
0064410226 / 9780064410229