Game Seven
  • Published: 10 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781101621547
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Game Seven

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10 Mar 2015
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15 Jan 2017
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My name is Julio Ramirez Jr. and baseball is my whole life.
 
Since he was ten, Julio has lived in the shadow of his famous father.  Not just because Julio Senior is a pitcher for the Miami Marlins, but because he fled Cuba to play professional baseball, leaving his Julio and his mother and sister branded as the family of a traitor. 
 
Now sixteen, Julio dreams of playing for Cuba’s national team—until he finds out his father's defection may destroy his chances.  When he’s given the opportunity to flee Cuba, he has to make the toughest choice of his life.  Can he abandon his family, just like his Papi did?  Will freedom be worth the perilous journey and risking prison if he’s caught?  Will his Papi be waiting for him on the other shore—or, with the Marlins in the World Series against the Yankees, has Julio Senior forgotten about his son? 
 
Set against the backdrop of the Series on which everything depends, Game Seven is a suspenseful story of loyalty, survival, and baseball.
  • Published: 10 March 2015
  • ISBN: 9781101621547
  • Imprint: PEN US eBook Childrens
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Praise for Game Seven

Black and White: IRA Award Winner for Young Adult Fiction, 2006 BBYA and Top 10 QP, 2006 NYPL Books for the Teen Age, Chosen as one of two YALSA WrestleMania© Reading Challenge titles (2006), Starred reviews in PW, BCCB, Booklist, 8 state lists; Rooftop:2007 BBYA and QP, 2007 NYPL Book for the Teen Age, starred review in Booklist; 2006 JLG Selection; Rucker Park Setup: 2008 Quick Picks, NYPL Book for the Teen Age, JLG Selection, 3 state lists; Hurricane Song: 2010 Popular Paperbacks List, Penn. School Library Association's Young Adult Top 40, Highlighted review in VOYA; Response: 2010 Quick Picks, Tayshas, 2010-2011 Kansas State Reading Circle Catalog, 2010 Milwaukee County Teen Book Honor; Rikers High: Quick Picks 2011 top ten list; The Final Four: Four starred reviews (Booklist, BCCB, Voya, SLJ), 2012 Bulletin Blue Ribbon List; 2013 Tayshas High School Reading List; Booklist Best Book 2012; Boston Globe's Nonrequired Summer Reading List 2012; 2013 BFYA nominee; 2015 Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee

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