Title: Soar
Author: Joan Bauer
Pages: 320
Finished: 6/6/17
First Sentence: I'm almost twelve years old; that's what the doctors think.
Summary: (from goodreads) Jeremiah is the world’s biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport. So when he’s told he can’t play baseball following an operation on his heart, Jeremiah decides he’ll do the next best thing and become a coach.
Hillcrest, where Jeremiah and his father Walt have just moved, is a town known for its championship baseball team. But Jeremiah finds the town caught up in a scandal and about ready to give up on baseball. It’s up to Jeremiah and his can-do spirit to get the town – and the team – back in the game.
Thoughts: It's your standard feel good story about a kid being saved by the sport he loves. Which yay? But as a music kid who spent her entire music career watching the athletes get all the glory even when they lost while no one in the arts got any recognition, I found myself annoyed and bored.
Read for the Bluestem Challenge
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