Review: A Home Run
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2014
Welcome to Belleville where soccer and baseball are the biggest sports.  The Soccer Tommies and Baseball Mommies coexist quite peacefully until that is, when a tornado named Old Luke visit’s the town and turns life upside down.  Now the two teams Pirates and the Dominion Daughters must share the baseball field while the other is being used for the tornado’s debris.G. Mitchell Baker tells a story centering around twins Teddy and Terri Fabiano, a brother and sister who are equally passionate about their sports and about having to share the baseball field with the Soccer Tommies so they can keep playing.  This could be any town and we all knew people like this growing up, or we were them.  He draws from his own experiences growing up and that gives this book a real sense of authenticity.  His characters are people you know and can relate to and the writing is easy and real.The biggest lesson is that no matter what adversities we face, how we treat others says a lot about who we are.  And that sometimes, it’s easy to lose sight of that when life gets turned upside down.This is a great read for any middle grader, whether they’re interested in sports or not.