Laugh-out-loud fun...
A winner in every way.
Nick will need to keep his eye on the ball in this fast, funny story about a game that can throw you some curveballs--just like life.
All while dodging the school bully, who\'s determined to win even by playing dirty.
How\'s a lousy fielder going to win the contest? Nick practices every day with his best friend, Ace, and a new girl who has an impressive throwing arm But that\'s not enough--to get to the contest, Nick has to lie to his parents and blackmail his uncle.
Nick\'s experience getting the ball out of Tank\'s pen has left him frozen with fear whenever a fly ball comes his way.
Nick and his friends play ball in the city zoo--and Tank lives just beyond the Right Field fence.
A 2,000-pound rhinoceros named Tank.
There\'s one other tiny--well, not so tiny--problem.
But the contest is on a Saturday--the day Nick has to work in his father\'s shop.
The local baseball team is having a batboy contest, and Nick wants to win.
Now he\'s looking for his own American dream and he thinks he\'s found it.
For twelve years, he\'s done what his hard-working, immigrant parents want him to do.
Nick wants to change his life. -- Publishers Weekly A boy who loves baseball must get past his hard-working immigrant parents--and the Rhino in the outfield--to become a batboy in this laugh-out-loud middle grade novel in the tradition of The Sandlot . -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Funny and good-hearted.
Laugh-out-loud fun...
A winner in every way
