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Apr 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780698118409 | Middle Grade (10 and up) Buy
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Apr 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780698118409 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
When preacher’s boy Luke Bledsoe steps on a baseball field, he discovers he has real pitching talent. For once, he can be proud of being left-handed. But Reverend Bledsoe believes that the left side is the side of Satan and the baseball field is the Devil’s playground. Luke has spent his whole life trying to please his father. Will he choose to give up the game he’s come to love-or turn his back on his family?An ALA Best Book for Young Adults1999 IRA Children’s Book AwardA BCCB Blue Ribbon Book
John Ritter has written many books and numerous short stories for young adult readers. His first novel, Choosing Up Sides, won the 1999 International Reading Association Children’s Book Award for Older Readers and was designated an American Library Association Best Book for… More about John Ritter
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