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Summary: A Good Book for a Yankee Fan
Review: Adam's ReviewEverybody has a book that they like. The book I read was Hardball. I think this book was very enjoyable to read.
The start of this book begins when Billy Baggs, Mark Kenwood, and Suzy Langen go to watch a ballgame. This ballgame takes place at the home of the Minnesota Twins. At this game Billy gets hit with a ball and is given a glove from Jim Kaat a Professional baseball player.
After the three of them get home Billy and King fight over Suzy who both love. Now these two have to stay together for a week. What will happen?
Three literary elements that Will Weaver uses is the use of the climax, which is the first one. I think the use of the climax is very good because I enjoyed reading it. The climax is when Billy and Suzy make love. The second literary element is the characterization chosen by the author. I like the characters because I think they represent me. The third literary element is the plot in which the events happen. The part of the plot I like is when the kids go to the stadium. I think the way the author used the events is very good.
My opinion of this book is that this author writes very good books from reading this. I think the characters he picked were very good such as Billy Baggs. I think how King and Billy fight over a girl relates to some kids today. I hope other people read this book also.
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Summary: Not Great
Review: At first when I read the discription of this book on itsjacket, I thought it would be a decent story. It turned out to be OKbut not exceptional. There isn't much about baseball. This is one of those stories where there's a character who seems to have everything, but has some family problem instead. I also couldn't get used to the farming way of life Billy Bagga lived.
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Summary: awsome book
Review: great stuff! a buch of baseball action, sex, and a big battle in the bulpen.
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Summary: Hard Ball uses baseball to explore family issues.
Review: Hard Ball (HarperCollins '98) is third in a linked series of YA novels, beginning with Striking Out ('93) and Farm Team ('95). These books seem to work very well in grades 7-10 (thanks teachers!) and particulary for young males who "never read" or don't like to read. Baseball is the hook, but I've tried to squeeze in as much literary value as I can. A recurring theme is that the givens in our lives--our setting, our family, even our names--need not be limiting.
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: I have to say, this book is the best about Baseball that I have yet read, and believe me, I've read alot of them. Hardball is the third book in a series of novels featuring farm boy Billy Baggs who has to deal with, puberty, his father's jailing and parole and school. The book shows increased relationships between Billy and Suzy than the previous two. However, this book kind of leaves readers hanging. What will happen to Billy and Suzy? Will Billy and King ever become friends? I don't know. I hope Will Weaver will write another book to finish things off.
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Summary: This book rules!!
Review: I loved the book. It kept me interested the whole way through. I'm gonna read more books by Will Weaver.
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Summary: awsome book
Review: I read the book Hard Ball, by Will Weaver. The main characters are Billy Baggs, King Kenwood, Suzy Langen, Coach Anderson, Mr. and Ms. Baggs, and Mr. and Ms. Kenwood.
Billy Baggs is a farm boy who has had a rivalry against rich townie and ace pitcher King Kenwood. They both like this girl named Suzy Langen. Billy has liked her for a long time and so has king. Their fathers haven't been friends either because King's father got Billy's dad put in jail. The summer before Billy and King went into ninth grade the rivalry blew up into violence. Coach Anderson desperate to keep the peace between what he believes to be his star players comes up with a plan. Anderson's plan is to discipline with out beating them. It was all up to the parents of Billy and King.
Anderson's plan was that if Billy and King wanted to play for him they would have to spend one-week together, 24 hours a day. Both Billy's and King's parents a greed. As Billy and King are spending their week together they figure that their problems might lie closer to home between their fathers and them. I think this was a good book and I would recommend it to any teenagers or young adults.
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Summary: Joel Rowell (Hard Ball By: Will Weaver)
Review: I read the book Hard Ball, by Will Weaver. The main characters are Billy Baggs, King Kenwood, Suzy Langen, Coach Anderson, Mr. and Ms. Baggs, and Mr. and Ms. Kenwood.
Billy Baggs is a farm boy who has had a rivalry against rich townie and ace pitcher King Kenwood. They both like this girl named Suzy Langen. Billy has liked her for a long time and so has king. Their fathers haven't been friends either because King's father got Billy's dad put in jail. The summer before Billy and King went into ninth grade the rivalry blew up into violence. Coach Anderson desperate to keep the peace between what he believes to be his star players comes up with a plan. Anderson's plan is to discipline with out beating them. It was all up to the parents of Billy and King.
Anderson's plan was that if Billy and King wanted to play for him they would have to spend one-week together, 24 hours a day. Both Billy's and King's parents a greed. As Billy and King are spending their week together they figure that their problems might lie closer to home between their fathers and them. I think this was a good book and I would recommend it to any teenagers or young adults.
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Summary: Columbus Community
Review: I thought this was a well written novel. I thought I was going to read about baseball, but it seemed that the whole book was based on the life of two young men that had problems with their fathers. It was a pleasent surprise because I can relate with King kenwood. When I have sport activities my father is always yelling at the offical even when the offical is wright. I commend King on how he could make the change from town life to country life. I was disappointed in the fact that Billy and Suzy were starting to get in a relationship and then they hardly even talked to each other. I think the coach is the one that kept the boys friendship alive. If it wasn't for him the boys never would have lived after their fight so they could show their fathers how they were hurting their lives. I think anybody would love this book because it has a little about baseball, but it is mainly about the relationship between father and son.
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Summary: Columbus Community
Review: I thought this was a well written novel. I thought I was going to read about baseball, but it seemed that the whole book was based on the life of two young men that had problems with their fathers. It was a pleasent surprise because I can relate with King kenwood. When I have sport activities my father is always yelling at the offical even when the offical is wright. I commend King on how he could make the change from town life to country life. I was disappointed in the fact that Billy and Suzy were starting to get in a relationship and then they hardly even talked to each other. I think the coach is the one that kept the boys friendship alive. If it wasn't for him the boys never would have lived after their fight so they could show their fathers how they were hurting their lives. I think anybody would love this book because it has a little about baseball, but it is mainly about the relationship between father and son.
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