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  • Pub. Date: February 2009
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
  • Format: Paperback, 160pp
  • Age Range: 8 to 12
Griffith, Graham, and Ruby’s father passed away in the war. And now they must join their mother and their father’s wartime traveling baseball team, The Travelin’ Nine, on a tour of America to raise money. No one will tell the kids why the team needs money so badly. Their only clue is a baseball with a hole the size of an acorn in it that their Uncle Owen gave to them the night of their father’s funeral. They know very little about its significance except that their father made it with his own two hands and carried it with him throughout the war. And when all three kids hold the ball, strange things begin to happen…

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  • Pub. Date: February 2009
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
  • Format: Paperback, 224pp
  • Age Range: 8 to 12

The year is 1899, and the Travelin’ Nine are crisscrossing the good ol’ U.S. of A., raising money to pay off the Payne family’s big-league debt!

As the team heads into the River City, Griffith is beginning to realize that there’s more at risk than meets the eye, something beyond the need to raise money — something involving the ball that could put his entire family in danger.

Ruby is eager to help solve the mystery of the ball and plans on keeping her eyes and ears wide open and writing everything down. She knows the answer is out there. All she has to do is see the things that others don’t. And figure out what those things mean.

Then there’s Graham, who usually only thinks about how to get more time on the baseball field. Even he’s beginning to notice that there are strange and shady characters at just about every turn.

Finally there’s the Chancellor, one of the wealthiest and greediest businessmen in the entire world. And it looks like he’s got his eye on the ball!

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  • Pub. Date: April 2009
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
  • Format: Paperback, 224pp
  • Age Range: 8 to 12

Where there’s smoke…

The year is 1899 and the Travelin’ Nine are barnstorming their way across the good ol’ U. S. of A., trying to raise money to pay off the Payne family’s big-league debt.

Pulling into Chicago, Griffith has a run-in with an enormous thug and is more convinced than ever that the nefarious robber baron called “The Chancellor” knows about their magic baseball.

Ruby also has an encounter with a mysterious stranger, and even though she doesn’t know why, she knows that he will change the Travelin’ Nine.

And Graham launches a towering shot out of the park when he thinks no one is looking. Unfortunately, the wrong eyes may have seen what the youngest Payne can do with a baseball.

Chicago is a hot town, so the Paynes better keep their cool. The Travelin’ Nine still have more money to make!

#1 New York Times bestseller Loren Long and Texas Bluebonnet winner Phil Bildner create a memorable modern-day parable where three siblings embark on the adventure of a lifetime and discover the strength in family, the power of faith, and the true magic of baseball.

 

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  • Pub. Date: April 2009
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
  • Format: Hardcover, 272pp
  • Age Range: 8 to 12

The year is 1899, and the Travelin’ Nine are crisscrossing the good ol’ U.S. of A., raising money to pay off the Payne family’s big-league debt!

As the team heads into the River City, Griffith is beginning to realize that there’s more at risk than meets the eye, something beyond the need to raise money — something involving the ball that could put his entire family in danger.

Ruby is eager to help solve the mystery of the ball and plans on keeping her eyes and ears wide open and writing everything down. She knows the answer is out there. All she has to do is see the things that others don’t. And figure out what those things mean.

Then there’s Graham, who usually only thinks about how to get more time on the baseball field. Even he’s beginning to notice that there are strange and shady characters at just about every turn.

Finally there’s the Chancellor, one of the wealthiest and greediest businessmen in the entire world. And it looks like he’s got his eye on the ball!

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]]> http://philbildner.com/sluggers-book-4/feed 0 Sluggers Book 5 Blastin’ the Blues http://philbildner.com/sluggers-book-5 http://philbildner.com/sluggers-book-5#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:46:10 +0000 admin http://philbildner.com/blog/?p=272

  • Pub. Date: February 2010
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
  • Format: Hardcover, 434pp
  • Age Range: 8 to 12

The year is 1899, and the Travelin’ Nine are barnstorming their way across the good ol’ U.S. of A., trying to raise money to pay off the Payne family’s big-league debt.

After jumping off the train to retrieve the baseball, Woody and Griffith find themselves stranded. When they come across a familiar face, they get back on track and Griffith learns just how magical their baseball is.

With the Rough Riders down a player, Graham finally gets his chance to play with them and show what he is made of. But he better be careful. There is no telling what the Chancellor is willing to sacrifice in order to use Graham’s abilities to his own evil ends.

And Ruby is still concerned that there is a mole in their midst and is more determined than ever to find out who is betraying them. With the opportunity to raise the most money yet at the game in New Orleans, they can’t afford to let anything get back to the Chancellor.

All this and there is still a game to play. Things are about to get rough in the Big Easy!

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  • Pub. Date: May 2010
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
  • Format: Hardcover, 316pp
  • Sales Rank: 112,035
  • Age Range: 8 to 12
The Paynes are down at the bottom of their last inning, but are they out? The final book in Loren Long and Phil Bildner’s Sluggers!

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