Safe at home

By Mike Lupica

Subjects: Teamwork (Sports), Adoption, Baseball players, Baseball, fiction, Baseball stories, Self-confidence, Seventh-grade boys, Sports, Fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, Parent and child, fiction, Twelve-year-old boys, School stories, Juvenile fiction, Family, fiction, Schools, Realistic fiction, Baseball

Description: Playing baseball was the one thing that made twelve-year-old Nick Crandall feel at home until he found acceptance with adoptive parents, but he faces a new struggle to fit in when he becomes the first seventh-grader ever to make the varsity baseball team.