Perfect game

Format:

Book

Title:

Perfect game

Author:

Bowen, Fred.

ISBN:

9781561456253

9781561457014

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Series title(s):

Fred Bowen sports story series.

Summary:

Isaac is a perfectionist, especially when it comes to baseball, and is unable to cope when things go wrong until his coach asks him to help out with a Unified Sports basketball team on which intellectually-disabled and other children play together.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 3.8 3 Quiz 157727 English fiction.

Subject(s):

Perfectionism (Personality trait) -- Juvenile fiction.

People with mental disabilities -- Juvenile fiction.

Self-control -- Juvenile fiction.

Baseball stories.

Perfectionism -- Fiction.

Basketball -- Fiction.

People with mental disabilities -- Fiction.

Baseball -- Fiction.

Self-control -- Fiction.

Genre:

Holds:

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Summary

Isaac is determined to pitch a perfect game- no hits, no runs, no walks, and no errors. He can't settle for less if he wants to make the summer all-star team. But when he allows a hit, Isaac keeps losing his cool on the mound and can't get his head back in the game.
Then Issac meets a very interesting Unified Sports basketball player who gets him thinking in a different way about the whole idea of a "perfect" game. But will this change in perspective help him be a better pitcher?
Themes of kindness, friendship, perfection, and ability star in this inspiring installment of Fred Bowen's Sports Story Series. The afterword provides interesting facts about the Special Olympics.

Author Notes

Fred Bowen was a Little Leaguer who loved to read and is still a lifelong sports fanatic. He is the author of the action-packed Fred Bowen Sports Story series, currently totaling more than twenty titles. For thirteen years, Bowen coached kids' baseball and basketball teams. He has also written a weekly sports column for kids in the Washington Post since 2000. He was a lawyer for many years before retiring to become a full-time children's book author.Bowen lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife Peggy Jackson. They have two grown children.

Reviews (1)

Horn Book Review

Isaac is focused on pitching a perfect game--so much so that he loses focus on everything else. Then he's encouraged to help with the Special Olympics. Previously using words like "retarded" and "weird," he has a lot to learn, but soon gets a new perspective on what perfect means. The character development is predictable, but the book's lesson is laudable. (c) Copyright 2013. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.