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Travel Team
Forced Out
Zack Waddell's baseball IQ makes him one of the Roadrunners' most important players. When a new kid, Dustin, immediately takes their catcher's spot, Zack is puzzled. Dustin doesn't have the skills to be a starter. So Zack offers to help him with his swing in Dustin's swanky personal batting cages.
Zack accidentally overhears a conversation and figures out why Dustin is starting―and why the team is suddenly able to afford an expensive trip to a New York tournament. Will Zack's baseball instincts transfer off the field? Will the Roadrunners be able to stay focused when their team chemistry faces its greatest challenge yet?
Zack accidentally overhears a conversation and figures out why Dustin is starting―and why the team is suddenly able to afford an expensive trip to a New York tournament. Will Zack's baseball instincts transfer off the field? Will the Roadrunners be able to stay focused when their team chemistry faces its greatest challenge yet?
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128 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 2012
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September 25, 2017
Zac plays for the Road Runners. The Road Punners are a youth baseball team. The Baseball team is ranked 9th in the World. Zac mom is single and works her heart out for him to play. She makes sacrifices for Zac day and day out. She tries her hardest working 2 jobs and trying to make ends meet.
There is a kid named Dustin and he joined the baseball team. He's not a very good player but people like home because his dad is a multimillionaire. The team planed a trip to go to New York City for a big tournament. Before Dustin came around the team they didn't have enough funds to make the trip work out. Dustins dad found that out and payed for the whole team to go and play.
Nick and Zac are the best on their team. They have lost much of their playing time due too Dustin comming to play. They are on a loosing streak because they are not playing. They make a roster for the team. Their goal is to get rid of the loosing streak and get them more playing time.
There is a kid named Dustin and he joined the baseball team. He's not a very good player but people like home because his dad is a multimillionaire. The team planed a trip to go to New York City for a big tournament. Before Dustin came around the team they didn't have enough funds to make the trip work out. Dustins dad found that out and payed for the whole team to go and play.
Nick and Zac are the best on their team. They have lost much of their playing time due too Dustin comming to play. They are on a loosing streak because they are not playing. They make a roster for the team. Their goal is to get rid of the loosing streak and get them more playing time.
April 25, 2023
I really enjoyed this book. I thought that I could relate to this topic a lot because it is about baseball. I thought the conflict was very interesting and intriguing. I would recommend this book to anyone who asked for a good book recommendation.
April 4, 2012
From April 2012 SLJ
Gr 6–10—This hi/lo series focuses on individual members of an elite travel team of 17-and-under baseball players from Las Vegas. In Forced Out, Zack's team gets the funding to play in a New York tournament that will have a lot of major-league-scout representation. However, when a new kid who's mediocre at best—but whose father is a multimillionaire—suddenly joins the team, Zack realizes that the coach might have compromised his standards for the travel money that Dustin's dad is promising. How can Zack support his coach and still be a good friend to the catcher, who is being forced out of his position by Dustin? In Power Hitter, Sammy Perez is one of the team's best hitters. When Coach signs the team up for a wooden-bat tournament, Sammy believes he will never be noticed by an MLB scout—his hits just are not as dramatic with wood—and he sees his dreams of supporting his family slipping away. His father tells him of a performance-enhancing drug that doesn't show up on tests, and Sammy is tempted to try them for that extra edge. Shortstop Trip Costas takes center stage in Out of Control. His father has lived out his baseball dreams through his sons, but Trip is tired of his father directing his life and wants to take a break. Only the wisdom of Coach Harris and others allows him to separate his frustration with his father from his feelings for the game. These authors pack a lot of drama and sports action into about 100 pages. The characters might be just a little too good to be true, but the tone is not didactic, and students will appreciate the real-life issues and ethical dilemmas that the players face.—
Gr 6–10—This hi/lo series focuses on individual members of an elite travel team of 17-and-under baseball players from Las Vegas. In Forced Out, Zack's team gets the funding to play in a New York tournament that will have a lot of major-league-scout representation. However, when a new kid who's mediocre at best—but whose father is a multimillionaire—suddenly joins the team, Zack realizes that the coach might have compromised his standards for the travel money that Dustin's dad is promising. How can Zack support his coach and still be a good friend to the catcher, who is being forced out of his position by Dustin? In Power Hitter, Sammy Perez is one of the team's best hitters. When Coach signs the team up for a wooden-bat tournament, Sammy believes he will never be noticed by an MLB scout—his hits just are not as dramatic with wood—and he sees his dreams of supporting his family slipping away. His father tells him of a performance-enhancing drug that doesn't show up on tests, and Sammy is tempted to try them for that extra edge. Shortstop Trip Costas takes center stage in Out of Control. His father has lived out his baseball dreams through his sons, but Trip is tired of his father directing his life and wants to take a break. Only the wisdom of Coach Harris and others allows him to separate his frustration with his father from his feelings for the game. These authors pack a lot of drama and sports action into about 100 pages. The characters might be just a little too good to be true, but the tone is not didactic, and students will appreciate the real-life issues and ethical dilemmas that the players face.—
September 30, 2014
I liked the book "Forced Out" by Gene Fehler. The book is about a kid named Zach who doesn't live in the wealthiest of families. Zach is on a travel team ranked 9th nationally and the team is planning to attend a tournament in New York, but the budget of the trip is just to much for a few kids on the team. All that changes when a new player Dustin shows up and the team can suddenly afford the New York trip. The team ends up going to New York and playing in the tournament.
October 2, 2014
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