This novel is a Booklist Editors' Choice, a Hornbook Fanfare Selection, a Judy Lopez Memorial Honor Book, a Parenting Reading Magic Award Book, a Beatty Award Winner, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. At the very least, Alfonso is able to "ride" Sandra on his handlebars. The narrative concludes with her hands on his and the words "it felt like love." "Baseball in April" also follows two boys, Jesse and Michael, who are nine and ten years old, who want to play Little League Baseball. Baseball in April and Other Stories, Gary Soto's debut book for young readers, earned the California Library Association's Beatty Award and was selected an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Since then, he has written and published several novels, short stories, plays, and poetry collections for adults and children. He currently resides in Berkeley, California. 965: Baseball in April and Other Stories is a comforting look at adolescence. This collection of short tales, written for a middle-school audience, provides insight into how conditions in the lives of pupils of this age group are frequently seen and how difficulties are addressed. This novel is a Booklist Editors' Choice, a Hornbook Fanfare Selection, a Judy Lopez Memorial Honor Book, a Parenting Reading Magic Award Book, a Beatty Award Winner, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, and an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.