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Category:
Children
Publisher: PL Publishing
ISBN-10: 1092494634
Type: Fiction
Pages: 150
Copyright: April 3, 2021
ISBN-13: 9781736701607
Price: $23.99 (eBook)
The outcome of a battle between good and evil goblins comes down to one game and one special boy.
The one thing eleven-year-old Jake Lupo loves more than anything else is baseball. However, despite his father being a professional pitcher, Jake’s fear of failing has kept him from competing against children his own age. When his father, who has recovered from a serious arm injury, is invited to pitch for an independent team, Jake and his parents move to Pine Barrows, a forested mountain outpost. Jake is excited about his father’s chance at a comeback, but he soon learns that he is not the only one in Pine Barrows who loves baseball. Goblins love to play baseball, too, and Pine Barrows happens to be chock full of them. Then Jake discovers that the region is occupied by two factions of warring goblins
Seeking to take control of the goblin kingdom, the leader of the evil goblins kidnaps Jake’s mother and bans baseball, a game which itself is a natural source of power for the goblins.
It turns out that Jake has a secret kinship with the legendary beings, and he is the only one who can save them, their kingdom and his mother. However, Jake must believe in himself and play a winner-take-all game against the best goblin players in Pine Barrows.
Excerpt
Jake got the ball back and straddled the pitching rubber as Buach strode to the plate, grinning and twirling his massive bat on his shoulder. The Overlord dug into batter’s box and tapped his bat on the plate. Looking up at Jake, he told him with a cocky sneer, “I’ll be touching this same spot with my foot after I hit the game-winning home run.”
Slash pounded his mitt to keep Jake’s focus on the target. The catcher gave a sign and a location. Jake nodded and drew in a deep breath.
This was it.
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This is a brilliant read...!
Youngsters will love the widely
interesting characters and the side by side world of Goblins
and humans...but interestingly not visible to all..!
The battle of good against evil is always a winning page turner
but set against the story of a father and son’s love of Baseball....the
Chance for a comeback for Dad , and a youngsters fear of failure ..and you
have the perfect recipe for a book that is simply impossible to put down!