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Six Innings: A Game in the Life

by James Preller

A championship game and a friendship under pressure

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A championship game and a friendship under pressure

A baseball game between boys ages eleven to thirteen provides the structure for a story about Sam and Mike, best friends facing Sam’s newly diagnosed cancer. The action unfolds inning by inning, with plays on the field set alongside the changing pressures on their friendship. Baseball is more than the setting: the championship becomes the shared challenge through which the boys confront what Sam’s diagnosis means for them. The book brings sports and illness together in a story centered on friendship, competition, and the effort to face a difficult situation together.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young readers interested in baseball-centered fiction.
  • Readers drawn to stories about close friendships and serious illness.
  • Readers looking for sports fiction with personal stakes beyond the game.

Themes

Baseball and competitionFriendshipSerious illnessCourage in the face of adversity

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Book overview

Two teams, six innings, one game.

A lively cast of characters--baseball-loving boys between the ages of eleven to thirteen--are playing the biggest game of their lives. With acrobatic catches, clutch hits, dramatic whiffs, and costly errors, this game is full of action. But as the book unfolds, pitch by pitch, a deeper story emerges, with far more at stake: Sam and Mike, best friends, are trying to come to terms with Sam's newly diagnosed cancer. And this baseball diamond becomes the ultimate testing ground of Sam and Mike's remarkable friendship as they strive to find a way to both come out winners.

This is for the championship.

This is for life.

Six Innings is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

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