Book description
Bullies, baseball, and kids who defy the odds. Hawk, a poor,
half-Native boy who lives on the street, is eager to go back to school,
to play baseball, and to please both his divorced parents. When Mr.
Rizzuto, his baseball coach, tells him how the great Babe Ruth, playing
on nearby Toronto Island in 1914, hit his first professional home run,
the question arises: what happened to the baseball? Did it land in the
waters of Lake Ontario and disintegrate over time? Or did someone fish
it out?
This is the story of a quest for a lost baseball treasure, and of a boy
finding his own family roots and a place in the big city. A lively tale,
it shows how kids who seem powerless can work together to take on some
of life's daunting challenges as they deal with schoolroom bullies and
street gangs. “…a fastpaced mystery.” Tom Henighan has published
twenty books, six of which are novels for young adults, including
Mercury Man, shortlisted for the Red Maple Award; Viking Quest and
Viking Terror, two historical novels set in medieval Canada;and, more
recently, Demon in My View and Doom Lake Holiday. He taught adult
fiction for ten years at Carleton University and has appeared at various
children's literature festivals, including those at Harbourfront and
Eden Mills,as well as the 2011 MASC workshops in children's writing in
Ottawa, where he lives.
