The Lucky Baseball Bat

1. Author: Matt Christopher
2. Title: The Lucky Baseball Bat
3. Illustrator: Dee deRosa
4. Genre: general fiction
5. Subgenre: No subgenre
6. Theme: life experiences
7. Primary and seconday characters: Martin is the primary character, secondary characters are Jeannie, Barry Welton, Coach Cassell, Mr. Ginty
8. Awards(s) date of publication: I didn't see any awards, published in 1993
9. Publishing company: Little, Brown and company
10. Brief summary and how you would use the book with students?

This book was chapter book ranging for ages 4 to 8. This book is about a little boy name Martin. He really wants to play baseball and he has no bat or glove. He struggles with a boy named Rick. He meets an older boy named Barry Welton that gave him his old bat and glove. Martin felt the bat was lucky and one day the bat broke and Martin felt he could no longer play baseball, because he was no good. A man named Mr. Ginty made Martin another bat that looked just like his lucky bat. Martin won the baseball game thinking it was his lucky bat when it reality he had it in him all along the bat had nothing to do with it. I could use this book when talking to my students about bullying and going through life experiences and relationships.