The Kid Comes Back

by John R. Tunis

Book Overview

"Packs an extra quota of excitement and suspense. The slam-bang climax makes just the right finale for a grand baseball-and-adventure yarn."--New York Times. "Baseball fans will welcome a new book about a favorite character by a favorite writer of sports stories."--Horn Book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068809290X
• ISBN13: 9780688092900
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Oh My!This is good.

This Is My FAVORITE book of all time!This is the Story:It's about Roy Tucker.He crashes in a plane,and hurts his leg.I'm not gonna tell you anymore.Just buy it to find out.Plain and simple. BUY IT!

"KID" SURVIVES WWII AND RETURNS TO DODGERS

One of the most interesting books in the Tunis series about the Brooklyn Dodgers, "The Kid Comes Back" is very unusual in that it's not really about baseball so much as it is about courage. Roy Tucker ("The Kid From Tomkinsville") serves in the U.S. Army during the Second World War in Europe, where he suffers an injury in battle. This book deals with what he goes through in the war effort, his rehabilitation and his difficult return to major league baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Tunis, who also wrote "Silence Over Dunkirk," is extremely effective at letting younger readers know what WWII was like. He also does a masterful job of painting a word picture of what it was like for veterans to come back to an America that had changed while they were gone. Of all the Tunis books, this (to me) is the best. The "gee whiz" tone of the first four books in the series is subdued, and a very strong storyline carries all the way through.