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When eleven-year-old Tommy made his hometown's baseball travel team, he thought he'd be set for life. He thought he'd be royalty. He thought he'd become a member of the Super Sports Society. And that's all kind of true . . . it will all happen, AFTER he wins his first travel tournament. Meanwhile, Tommy's best friend, Pel, is also going to his first tournament, and using his dad's old baseball glove is a punch-in-the-gut reminder that he's no longer here. Or, as Ma says, is he?
Join Tommy, Pel, Diesel, Clutch, Alfredo, Goetz, and the members of the Bulldogs (wait . . . no, the TurdlesI) in their first-ever travel baseball tournament. Of course, there's tons of LOL-worthy moments, like a laser tag game gone wrong, an incident involving bunch of chili flakes on pepperoni pizza (don't try that one at home), and a rival team that's gotta go down.
Hopefully.
This book is the second in The Super Sports Society series by Bryan Chick and Brett Radlicki. It's humor at its finest, interwoven with lessons about life, friendship, coming-of-age, battling anxiety both on and off the field, and grief.
"Equal parts baseball and potty humor with an added whiff of conflict resolution." - Kirkus, for The Super Sports Society vol. 1
"The dialogue between characters will make the reader feel like they are in the huddle alongside Tommy and Pel!" - Matt Eicheldinger, bestselling author of Matt Sprouts and the Curse of the Ten Broken Toes
"Bryan Chick and Brett Radlicki hit an easy home run with The Super Sports Society. Full of heart and humor, The Super Sports Society is cool enough to wear sunglasses indoors." - Terrance Crawford, bestselling author of the Piggy series
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February 11, 2025 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9798881602178
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- ISBN: 9798881602178
- File size: 35208 KB
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- English
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January 1, 2025
In this second series entry, young ballplayers discover that numbers on the scoreboard aren't the only way to measure wins. Along with offering mini-clinics in batting, catching fly balls, and safely removing leeches, among other general life skills, the mixed-gender traveling team (newly renamed the Wurtmore Turdles for its port-a-potty sponsor) weathers bullies, crushes on teammates, and undergoes a range of emotional challenges from a lost pet to a lost parent over the course of a summer tournament. Chick stirs generous quantities of coaching and self-coaching into game action that's highlighted by gleeful just deserts for sneering archrivals who steal a jar of especially potent pickles and later pay the intestinal price. The behavior modeling, sporting and otherwise, may weigh heavily at times but is generally buoyed by the alimentary humor and an upbeat ending: The Turdles rebound from a tournament loss as Pel, one of the ensemble members who shares narrative duties, takes steps toward healing from the grief of his father's death and at last cements relations with the team's catcher, Diesel. Diesel's real given name, Huyen, cues some racial diversity in the cast that's backed up by Radlicki's lively illustrations of the middle school-aged ballplayers. High fly balls and low humor, on and off the basepaths.(Fiction. 8-12)COPYRIGHT(2025) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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