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1) Swing
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"Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything"--
2) Heat
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Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
3) High heat
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When sophomore Shane Hunter's father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the star pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart.
4) Heroine
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"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time...
5) Wings
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Angel is counting on a baseball scholarship to go to college, but when his friend, Berto, accidentally injures him in a game he wonders if he'll ever play again.
7) New kid
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"A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--Provided by publisher.
10) Mexican whiteboy
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Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California.
11) Game seven
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Sixteen-year-old Julio Ramirez Jr. faces the difficult decision of escaping Cuba in the hopes that his father, a star baseball player who defected to America to play for the Miami Marlins, will take him in, or remaining behind and pursuing his dream of playing for Cuba's national team.
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High school freshman Ryan Walsh, a Chicago Cubs fan, meets Nick when they both skip school on opening day, and their blossoming relationship becomes difficult for Ryan when she discovers that Nick is seriously ill and she again feels the pain of losing her father five years earlier.