Holding at Third

by Linda Zinnen

Book Overview

Meet Matt Bainter: Baseball genius, middle child, loyal brother, King of Denial. When Matt decides to uproot his life to be near Tom, he knows he is supposed to be strong and tough, to lend support to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014240554X
• ISBN13: 9780142405543
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 and higher

Customer Reviews

I loved this book, beautifully written and a wonderful story

This is the best book about baseball I have ever read. It puts you in the center of a boy's mind at the very heart of the game as he struggles to work his way through a mediocre season on a mediocre team. But it is so much more than that -- It is amazing how Linda Zinnen puts you in Matt's head as he plays through an up and down season while fearing for his brother Tom's life who is hospitalized by cancer. Matt's season runs in parallel to Tom's fight against his own mortality. Matt has to balance the sacrifices he is making by leaving a championship team for a perenniel also-ran to be near his brother, against his own frailties and fears that Tom may never come out alive again.