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–Caitlin Augusta, The Darien Library, CTĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Ritter's The Boy Who Saved Baseball (Philomel, both 2003) as a sports fiction title. Pitch it alongside Joseph Bruchac's The Warriors (Darby Creek) and John H. One-Handed Catch is an enjoyable read on the popular theme of overcoming adversity. While the rosy worldview may be slightly exaggerated, there's a small-town interconnectedness between the episodic chapters that will keep the pages turning. His mother's fierce attempts to keep her son independent and his father's silent guilt round out the family picture that feels immediate in many ways, even though the story is set in 1946. Norm's inner voice is generally calm, and his jocular exchanges with his friend Leon provide comic relief. The gruesome accident is the only jarring note in this otherwise light, humorous tale.
He loved it so much he even convinced his teacher to read it to the class, then got all of his friends that were not in his class to read it. The climax is, of course, the big game and Norm's chance to prove himself to his peers and community. Thank you MJ Auch for engaging my young reader My son read this book in 4th grade (last year), he is a decent reader but had never enjoyed reading until he got his hands on 'The one handed catch'. He then faces the challenges of one-handed shoe tying, band practice, and his dream of being a baseball player. On the Fourth of July, while helping his dad in the store, he gets his hand caught in the meat grinder and loses it. Set just after World War II, Auch's novel tells of 11-year-old Norm, whose family owns a meat market.
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