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Never Blame The Umpire (2010)

by Gene Fehler(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0310719410 (ISBN13: 9780310719410)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Zonderkidz

review 1: Received this book because I won it on Goodreads, and am I thankful. This is a good read.The story concerns an eleven year old girl and her family of a father, mother and younger brother. Things are going well, at least ok for her and then she faces a tragedy in her family. They are a religious family and a sports family, as well.The rest of the book concerns how she first is mad at God and then how through her sports and her poetry and her family life and friends, she finally comes to the realization that you can "Never blame the Umpire."A joyful read for youth.J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'"
review 2: I recieved this book from the First Reads program. The book is aimed at a younger audience... as a former fifth grade teache... morer I'd say about age 11 would be a good younger end of the range for this book, both for reading level and content. As books for the age group go, I'd say the writing style is about average. I didn't dislike the book, but didn't find anything spectacular in it, either. The characters were fine but didn't really draw me in or make me deeply identify with them, the storyline was fine but didn't have anything unique or surprising about it. Overall, it was just an average book, fine for a kid to read, good messages about God, nice to have a female character who is into both sports and poetry, but not one I would say was a particularly memorable read. less

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