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Slider's Son


School year: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8

No. of pages 344

Published: 2017

Great for age 7-13 years

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Friendship. Danger. Murder. Grant O'Grady wants nothing more than to be a major league baseball pitcher. He's only thirteen, but his dream seems possible . . . until Big Joe turns his life upside down. Grant and his buddies are no strangers to risk. At the end of the Great Depression in small-town North Dakota, money is tight, so Grant and his friends swipe coal from the coal train when it stops in town to fill its boiler. It's risky to climb the train cars, but so is climbing the water tower to chuck snowballs at passing cars, and so is shooting out Christmas lights downtown. But risk turns into very real danger every time Big Joe shows up. After an encounter with the man one winter night in 1936, Grant's life will change forever.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 10-13 years.

There are 344 pages in this book. This book was published in 2017 by North Star Press of Saint Cloud Inc .

Rebecca Fjelland Davis is a serious cyclist and the author of Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged (HarperCollins), in addition to many nonfiction children's books. She teaches English and humanities at South Central College in North Mankato, Minnesota. Visit her online at www. rebeccafjellanddavis. com