by Lynn Reiser (2002)
English-speaking Richard and Spanish-speaking Ricardo and their dogs walk through the park, each looking for his lost ball.
Brian Pinkney
Owen loves playing ball. But it doesn't always "love" him back. And after a particularly disastrous day on the field, Owen is benched. He is feeling so low that he doesn't even notice the ball rolling through a hole in the fence until it's gotten away. In his effort to get it back, he discovers that he has more skills than he realizes.
George V. Higgins
No one likes Alexander Drouhin. Handsome, ruthless, and as smooth as a pool shark, Alex has built the largest and most successful sports agency in the nation from the ground up, leaving dissatisfied athletes and angry executives in his wake. Alex knows that greed can get you everything, but he never expected to get more than he bargained for. Surrounded by a motley staff of ex-football players and hungry junior agents, Alex is too busy closing the deal to notice that just about everyone, especially his own "associates," would be better off without him. So when Alex is found in his palatial mansion on the outskirts of Boston with a bullet in his head, there is no shortage of suspects - from pistol-packing limo drivers and bitter partners, to whining millionaire athletes. And by the time Lieutenant Francis Clay arrives on the scene, it appears that everyone has an alibi and no one has a clue.
Darryl Brock
"Determined to find his lost love - the beautiful Irish widow Cait - Sam hopes again to be transported to the nineteenth century. Soon he's riding the rails as a tramp, tangling with the Sioux, tracking through the James brothers' territory, and heading west with gold rush fever victims. Peopled by such unforgettable historical figures as the real Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) and General Custer, and filled with vivid period detail, Two in the Field once again takes us back to the years when America and our great national pastime were young."--BOOK JACKET.
B.B. Calhoun
When thirteen-year-old Crystal Joseph is chosen to dance the lead in "Sleeping Beauty" she worries about losing her friends and her position as first baseman for the Pink Parrots.