Dan Gutman, Author HarperCollins $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-029247-8
Shoeless Joe and Me author Dan Gutman presents Mickey & Me, the fifth installment in the Baseball Card Adventure series, in which Joe Stoshak travels back to 1951 and meets Mickey Mantle.
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Dan Gutman, illus. by Jim Paillot. Harper, $16.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-209106-2
Facing off against the convention wisdom among some that “CUL8R is the same as see you later” and that “Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are boring,” Gutman provides compelling evidence why those kids should change their thinking: “You sound like...
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Dan Gutman, Harper, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-182764-8
In the first book in the Genius Files series, "almost-teenager" twins Coke and Pepsi get caught up in a secret society of brilliant kids chosen to save the nation from terrorists. With an abundance of photographs, clip art–style illustrations, and...
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Dan Gutman, Author HarperCollins $16.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-029253-9
In this latest Baseball Card Adventure, Shoeless Joe & Me by Dan Gutman, Joe ""Stosh"" Stoshack travels back to 1919 but will he be in time to prevent Shoeless Joe Jackson from being implicated in a conspiracy to throw the World Series? ( Mar.)
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Dan Gutman, Author Hyperion Books $15.99 (202p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0764-2
Dan Gutman's The Million Dollar Kick does for soccer what his The Million Dollar Shot did for basketball. Whisper Nelson, a seventh grader living in Oklahoma City, enters a competition to create the best slogan (the Million Dollar Kick Contest at
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Dan Gutman, Author Hyperion Books $13.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0394-1
Gutman (The Kid Who Ran for President) taps out a smoothly diverting ""What if?"" tale centered on a seventh-grader who is new to town and feeling friendless. After Yip's father, a special-effects expert in the movie business, comes home with new...
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Dan Gutman, Author Scholastic $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-93987-4
It doesn't take much for sixth-grader Judd Moon's best friend, Lane, to convince him that a kid rather than a grownup should lead the U.S. into the new millennium-and that Judd is just the boy for the job. Fast-talking Lane grabs the reigns as his...
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Dan Gutman, Author Puffin Books $5.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-037933-4
Gutman explores nine of the greatest baseball games ever played, from no-hitters to slugfests. Coverage here includes exciting play-by-play commentary and black-and-white photos. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Dan Gutman, Author Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers $15.99 (232p) ISBN 978-0-689-87680-6
Gutman's (The Homework Machine) dedication to this loopy tale thanks Gary Paulsen for writing Hatchet, the novel Julia reads as she flies cross-country with her older brother, narrator Jimmy, and his pals Henry and David, all three of whom are...
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Dan Gutman, Author . HarperTrophy $5.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-380-80504-4
A boy and his father zip back in time to discover whether Babe Ruth actually predicted his home run in Game Three of the 1932 World Series. "Gutman's account of Joey's strained relationship with his divorced father and his portrait of...
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Dan Gutman, Author HarperCollins $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-380-81012-3
Gutman's (Babe and Me) latest novel introduces a 13-year-old with a career that kids will surely find cool: he's a ""stuntkid,"" performing daring feats on behalf of Ricky Corvette, a teen movie star and heartthrob. Johnny's father, a legendary...
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Dan Gutman, Author HarperCollins $16.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-380-97350-7
Baseball, time travel and magic converge in Gutman's (The Kid Who Ran for President; The Way Baseball Works) joyfully entertaining yarn. Cleaning out his neighbor's attic, gawky 12-year-old Joe Stoshack discovers a mint-condition, T-206 Honus Wagner
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Dan Gutman, Author . Simon & Schuster $15.99 (230p) ISBN 978-1-4169-2438-8
This smartly conceived, action-packed and at times downright silly tale offers further proof of Gutman's (The Million Dollar Shot
) skill at entertaining tween boys. Trip Dinkleman, an unabashed book-hater, gets roped into helping set up some...
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Dan Gutman, Author . HarperCollins $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-053440-0
Gutman's (Honus & Me
; the Baseball Card Adventures) light, sprightly-paced story introduces a quintet of kids who start a club with the intention of making lots of money—fast. Eleven-year-old narrator Gina ("CEO") believes...
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Dan Gutman, Author . HarperTrophy $5.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-380-78878-1
Cleaning out his neighbor's attic, a gawky 12-year-old discovers a mint-condition Honus Wagner 1909, $450,000 baseball card. In this addition to the Baseball Card Adventures series, baseball, time travel and magic converge for, in PW's...
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Dan Gutman, illus. by Kerry Talbott. Bloomsbury, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-59990-494-8
Gutman showcases an infamous blunder in college football history in this play-by-play recap of an incident in the 1929 Rose Bowl between the University of California and Georgia Tech. When a player dropped the ball, Riegels, California’s center,...
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Dan Gutman, Author, Dan Santat, Illustrator , illus. by Dan Santat. Simon & Schuster $15.99 (150p) ISBN 978-1-4169-9001-7
So what does a genie have to do with Christmas? Plenty, in Gutman's goofy middle-grade novel. After a genie emerges from a meteorite that has crashed into Chase's fifth-grade classroom, Chase (a personable, funny narrator) and his...
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Dan Gutman, Author, Steve Johnson, Illustrator, Lou Fancher, Illustrator , illus. by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. HarperCollins $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-056025-6
What if the scourge of Mudville had another chance? Gutman (the Baseball Card Adventure series) takes a crack at a sequel to Ernest Lawrence Thayer's Casey at the Bat
in his picture book debut. With two outs, two men on base and his team down...
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Dan Gutman, Author, Angela Goethals, Read by , read by Angela Goethals. HarperChildren's Audio $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-073586-9
With an even-keeled delivery and good sense of humor, Goethals becomes 11-year-old Gina Tumolo, a girl who loves money—she dreams of it, longs for it—and is not ashamed to admit it. With the goal of becoming a millionaire by the time she&
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Dan Gutman, Author, Jim Paillot, Illustrator , illus. by Jim Paillot. HarperCollins $3.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-06-050700-8
Well tailored for beginning and reluctant readers, this light, appealingly goofy debut tale in the My Weird School series features short chapters, a relatively large typeface and ample cartoon-style illustrations. On the first day of second grade,...
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Dan Gutman. Holiday House, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8234-4515-8
Having been born in the New York City house in which Harry Houdini lived the last years of his life, 11-year-old Harry Mancini has become obsessed with the famous magician, learning the illusionist’s history and picking up magic tricks of his own....
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Dan Gutman. Holiday House, $18.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8234-5484-6
Employing even keeled pacing and distinctively rendered characters, Gutman (the My Weird School series) chronicles how Cleopatra’s Needle became a New York City landmark in this delightfully fact-ional blend of history and adventure. In an...
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Dan Gutman, illus. by Allison Steinfeld. Norton, $16.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-324-01560-4
In an introduction and 12 chapters, Gutman brings his signature humor to this narrative nonfiction biography of Muhammad Ali, “one of the most important sports figures in history.” Organized as a play-like dialogue between siblings Paige and Turner,
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