"Forty-eight original and classic reading selections-all about baseball-provide authentic reading opportunities that seem more like play than work! High-interest baseball articles, stories, biographies, poems, and interviews appeal equally to boys and girl"
Barbara Gregorich is the author of Waltur Buys a Pig in a Poke and Waltur Paints Himself into a Corner (Houghton Mifflin), early readers featuring Waltur, a bear who learns folk wisdom as expressed in idioms and proverbs -- but only after humorous results. She is the author of numerous early readers and workbooks published by School Zone Publishing, as well as the author of Workman's Brain Quest Workbook Grade 4.
Her adult fiction includes She's on First, a well-received mainstream novel about a woman major league baseball player, and Dirty Proof, a mystery featuring Frank Dragovic, Chicago Croatian private detective. Her nonfiction work, Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball (Harcourt Brace), won the SABR-Macmillan award for best baseball research of the year.
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