num_pages: 112
description: Play Ball???"I've played Little League baseball for six years now. But to tell you the truth, I'm not exactly what you'd call a real good athlete. Actually, I'm not even real okay. Basically, what I'm trying to say here is, I stink."For the smallest kid on the baseball team, Alex "Skinnybones" Frankovitch has a major-league bigmouth! But even Alex knows he's gone too far when he brags his way into a pitching contest with T.J. Stoner, the best baseball player -- and biggest creep -- in the entire school. What a mistake! This might be one mess that not even Alex can talk his way out of--
language: English
title: Skinnybones
titlecomplete: Skinnybones
characters: Alex Frankovitch
genres: Chapter Books, Kids, Childrens, Humor, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Sports, Fiction, Baseball, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 1679
places: The United States of America
series: Skinnybones
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Texas Bluebonnet Award
publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers