Free Baseball
Eleven-year-old Felix becomes a bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: minor league baseball, mothers and sons, single-parent families, cuban americans, florida [X], baseball stories [X], cuba
Stealing Home
Though they still listen to baseball and go fishing, Thomas and his grandfather find life in their small house in Florida changed when Great-aunt Linzy comes to stay.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: grandfathers, great-aunts, african americans, old age, baseball, florida [X], baseball stories [X]
The Way To Stay In Destiny
Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: mystery and detective stories, orphans, baseball, pianists, boardinghouses, florida [X], moving, household, uncles, baseball stories [X], detective and mystery fiction