Book Series

Cruz de la Cruz Books

In order from The Desperado Who Stole Baseball to The Boy Who Saved Baseball
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball
The Boy Who Saved Baseball
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball
The Boy Who Saved Baseball
chapter • 260 Pages
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball
#1 in Series
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 books
chapter • 260 Pages
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball
Hardcover
$17.99$16.73
picture • 224 Pages
The Boy Who Saved Baseball
#2 in Series
Paperback
$7.99$7.43
Year#TitlePages
20091The Desperado Who Stole Baseball260
20052The Boy Who Saved Baseball224

The Creative Behind the Books

    Author & Illustrator
    John Ritter

    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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