Trouble on the T-Ball Team

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When everyone on Linda's T-ball team starts "losing one" at the oddest times and places, Linda wonders when her big moment will come. This easy-reading mystery keeps readers guessing right up to the very end.

Linda feels left out as the only one on her first-grade T-ball team who hasn't lost a tooth.

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Overview

When everyone on Linda's T-ball team starts "losing one" at the oddest times and places, Linda wonders when her big moment will come. This easy-reading mystery keeps readers guessing right up to the very end.

Linda feels left out as the only one on her first-grade T-ball team who hasn't lost a tooth.

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Editorial Reviews

Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot
Everyone on Linda's T-ball team is losing something, and as young readers will soon deduce, that something is a tooth. Poor Linda despairs that she will never lose her first one, but in this baseball setting, no one on the team is left out. The delightful watercolor illustrations of the ballplayers and their families make this book a real treat, and young first and second graders will empathize with Linda's concern.
School Library Journal
PreS-Gr 2This picture book centers around a T-ball team on which everyone has "lost one" except for the narrator. Therein lies the dilemmathe elusive "one" that has been lost. It turns out to be a tooth. To no surprise, a home run (and subsequent fall over a wayward dog) ensures that the narrator becomes one of the gang. This story struggles to be a mystery and fails at being a consolation book for children with their baby teeth intact. The average-quality watercolors do little to further the narrative; at one point, the illustrations even contradict the text with the narrator suddenly switching from playing offense to defense while scoring the winning home run. For a seven-year-old, losing a tooth is a rite of passage. Not losing a tooth can therefore be somewhat traumatic and create a sense of isolation in a child. Marc Brown's Arthur's Tooth (Little, Brown, 1985) addresses this issue more directly. Bunting's title lacks the superior quality usually associated with her books.Christy Norris, Valley Cottage Library, NY
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"Graced by light, comical illustrations, a playful humor, a great backdrop, and a keen sense of a real child's world, this is destined to become a picture-book favorite. Look out, Tooth Fairy—the prolific Bunting scores again." Booklist, ALA
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780618246175
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 10/28/2002
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 32
  • Sales rank: 592,364
  • Age range: 5 - 8 Years
  • Product dimensions: 8.04 (w) x 10.01 (h) x 0.16 (d)

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