Free Baseball

Title: Free Baseball                                                    

Author: Sue Corbett

Illustrator: None

Genre: Fiction

Subgenre: Realism: Families/Sports

Theme: The Love for baseball

Primary Characters: Felix, and his mother

Secondary Characters: The Miracle baseball team, Felix’s friends, and Homer

Awards: None

Date of Publication: 2006

Publishing Company: The Penguin Group

Summary of the book: Free Baseball is a book about a little boy named Felix whose number one dream is to play baseball like his famous father that he has never met.  In his eyes, nothing is more important than baseball. He shows this when he sneaks out of town while hiding on The Miracle baseball team’s bus after a game one night.  Although doing this caused his mother to worry and be very angry, it ended up bringing them close and to a new and better life in the end.

How can the book be used with students in the classroom: I believe this would be a great book to read to the class for a few minutes a day. It could be tied into Father’s Day or read just for enjoyment. Felix is a young boy who has big goals that he ends up achieving at the end of this book. The moral of this story is to set your heart to something and never give up. I believe it is a great “life-lesson” book and will teach students about fighting through family issues and reaching their dreams.