Super-sized slugger

By Ripken, Cal

Subjects: Overweight persons, Moving, household, fiction, Baseball, fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Baseball stories, Household Moving, Moving, Middle schools, Bullies, Bullying, Theft, Baltimore (md.), fiction, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Stealing, Juvenile fiction, Bullies, fiction, Schools, Obesity, Baseball

Description: Thirteen-year-old Cody Parker moves to Baltimore, Maryland, where as a fat eighth-grader, he has to deal with brutal teasing from a baseball teammate, and his school is beset by a rash of mysterious thefts that threaten to sideline Cody and ruin a golden season for his team.