num_pages: 176
description: When preacher's boy Luke Bledsoe steps on a baseball field, he discovers he has real pitching talent. For once, he can be proud of being left-handed. But Reverend Bledsoe believes that the left side is the side of Satan and the baseball field is the Devil's playground. Luke has spent his whole life trying to please his father. Will he choose to give up the game he's come to love-or turn his back on his family?An ALA Best Book for Young Adults1999 IRA Children's Book AwardA BCCB Blue Ribbon Book
language: English
title: Choosing Up Sides
titlecomplete: Choosing Up Sides
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Sports, Juvenile, Historical, Young Adult
ratings_count: 369
places: Ohio
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award
category: Older Reader Category
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers