Cruz de la Cruz Books
In order from The Desperado Who Stole Baseball to The Boy Who Saved Baseball
Book #1
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball
10 - 13
Reading
age
260
Page
count
223
Words
per page
Mar 5, 2009
Publication
date
Hardcover
$17.99
$16.73
Summary
Dillontown was built upon a gold mine. Yet for the villagers, life is about something even more valuable: baseball. Home to the Dillontown Nine, they would give anything to join the ranks of professional ballplayers?even their gold. Yet to make it, they will need to defeat the world champion Chicago White Stockings?and their crooked owner, willing to wager anything for the mine, and willing to do anything to avoid losing. Fortunately, Dillontown is home to two boys who know a little something about winning. One is young Jack Dillon, nephew to Dillontown founder Long John Dillon. The other? A boy on the run, in need of a second chance: none other than Billy the Kid. One of the fi nest storytellers of our time, John H. Ritter brings the Old West to life in this prequel to his breakout success, “The Boy Who Saved Baseball.”
Cruz de la Cruz Series
Published from 2005 - 2009
2 booksHardcover
$17.99$16.73
Paperback
$7.99$7.43
| Year | # | Title | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 1 | The Desperado Who Stole Baseball | 260 |
| 2005 | 2 | The Boy Who Saved Baseball | 224 |
The Creative Behind the Books
Author & Illustrator
John Ritter has written many novels and numerous short stories for Young Adult readers. His first novel, Choosing Up Sides, published in 1998, won the 1999 International Reading Association Children’s Book Award for Older Readers and was designated an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults. Kirkus Reviews praised Choosing Up Sides, which attacked the once-prevalent views of religious fundamentalists toward left-handed children, as, “No ordinary baseball book, this is a rare first novel.” In 2004 Ritter received the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People for his third novel, The Boy Who Saved Baseball.
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