Overview
āFunny and good-hearted.ā āPublishers Weekly
A boy who loves baseball must get past his hard-working immigrant parentsāand the rhino in the outfieldāto become a batboy in this laugh-out-loud middle grade novel in the tradition of The Sandlot.
Nick wants to change his life. For twelve years, heās done what his hard-working, immigrant parents want him to do. Now heās looking for his own American dream and he thinks heās found it. The local baseball team is having a batboy contest, and Nick wants to win.
But the contest is on a Saturdayāthe day Nick has to work in his fatherās shop. Thereās one other tinyāwell, not so tinyāproblem. A 2,000-pound rhinoceros named Tank. Nick and his friends play ball in the city zooāand Tank lives just beyond the right field fence. Nickās experience getting the ball out of Tankās pen has left him frozen with fear whenever a fly ball comes his way. Howās a lousy fielder going to win the contest?
Nick practices every day with his best friend, Ace, and a new girl who has an impressive throwing arm! But thatās not enoughāto get to the contest, Nick has to lie to his parents and blackmail his uncle. All while dodging the school bully, whoās determined to win even by playing dirty. Nick will need to keep his eye on the ball in this fast, funny story about a game that can throw you some curveballsājust like life!
This book title, The Rhino in Right Field - 9781534406278, ISBN: 9781534406278, by Stacy DeKeyser, published by Margaret K. McElderry Books (May 21, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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