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The Million Dollar Shot
By Gutman, Dan
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-78680-334-7
- Publisher
- New York : Hyperion Books for Children, 1997.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 1997
Gr 4-6 Another page-turner from the author of The Kid Who Ran for President (Scholastic, 1996). Eddie Ball, 11, lives with his mother in a cramped trailer in rural Louisiana. Although he dreams of moving to a "regular house," Mrs. Ball's salary at the Finkle Foods Factory is low, and her bills are many. Eddie's best friend is his African-American next-door neighbor and classmate, the poetry-loving, basketball-playing Annie Stokely, who lives with her father. When both adults are laid off from the factory, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
