Mickey & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure (Baseball Card Adventures)
Gr. 4-6. In another Baseball Card Adventure book Joe Stoshack travels back in time again to meet a famous baseball player. Joe's father, who has been seriously injured in a car accident, tells Joe where to find a 1951 Mickey Mantle card, which Joe is to use to travel back to the 1951 World Series and warn Mantle of an impending accident. But Joe's friend Samantha switches cards, and the boy finds himself traveling back to 1944, instead, where he meets Mickey Maguire, a star player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Joe hangs out with Maguire's team and meets more famous players before encountering 13-year-old Mickey Mantle on a train, where Joe warns the confused Mantle about an accident awaiting him years later. Joe returns to the present to learn his father will be okay. Like the other books in the series, this one delivers a fast-moving plot, lots of action, and colorful depictions of famous sports heroes of the past. A good choice for reluctant readers who are sports fans.Ed SullivanCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.