Key:
^ Nonfiction
*Grade levels are based on reviews from sources such as School Library Journal, Booklist, etc. They do not necessarily represent Alan’s and Abby’s views on grade level appropriateness.
Baseball
A Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Fitzmaurice (Grades 4+)
A Season of Daring Greatly by Ellen Emerson White (Grades 9-12)
^ A Strong Right Arm by Michelle Y. Green (Grades 4-7)
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (Grades 4-8)
All the Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg (Grades 6-8)
All Star by Jesse Lonergan (Grades 9-12)
Babe and Me by Dan Gutman (Grades 5-9)
Baseball Crazy by Nancy Mercado, ed. (Grades 4-8)
Baseball Great by Tim Green (Grades 4-7)
Baseball in April by Gary Soto (Grades 4-7; Spanish Edition)
Beanball by Gene Fehler (Grades 5-9)
^ Beyond Belief by Josh Hamilton and Tim Keown (Grades 9-12)
^ Big Papi by David Ortiz and Tony Massoratti
Biggie by Derek E. Sullivan (Grades 9-12)
Broken Laces by Rodney Walther
Center Field by Robert Lipsyte (Grades 8-12)
Change-up John Feinstein (Grades 6-9)
Choosing Up Sides by John Ritter (Grades 5-9)
^ Clemente by David Maraniss (Spanish edition)
Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert (Grades 8-11)
Curveball by Jordan Sonnenblick (Grades 7+)
Diamond Ruby by Joseph Wallace
^ Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof
Fair Ball by Derek Jeter (Grades 4-8)
Fantasy Baseball by Alan Gratz (Grades 3-7)
Fences by August Wilson (Grades 9-12)
Fenway Fever by John Ritter (Grades 5-7)
Finding Buck McHenry by Alfred Slote (Grades 4-6)
Game Seven by Paul Volponi (Grades 7-10)
Gold Dust by Chris Lynch (Grades 5+)
Golden Arm by Carl Deuker (Grades 6-8)
Goodbye Mr. Spalding by Robin Barr (Grades 4-8)
Heart of a Champion by Carl Deuker (Grades 6-10)
Heat by Mike Lupica (Grades 5-9)
High Heat by Carl Deuker (Grades 5-8)
^ High Heat by Tim Wendel
Hurricane Heat by Steven Barwin (Grades 5-8)
^ I Never Had it Made by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett
Ironweed by William Kennedy (Grades 9-12)
Just as Good by Chris Crowe (Grades 1-4)
Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park (Grades 4-7)
^ Kenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer by Bill Staples, Jr.
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger (Grades 9-12)
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt (Grades 5-8)
Lost in the Sun by Lisa Graff (Grades 5-8)
^ Making My Pitch by Ila Jane Borders and Jean Hastings Ardell (Grades 9-12)
Man Up by Kim Oclon
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (Grades 6-10)
Mascot by Antony John (Grades 4-8)
Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt De La Peña (Grades 9-12)
^ Mo’ne Davis: Remember My Name by Mo’Ne Davis (Grades 4-8)
Mudville by Kurtis Scaletta (Grades 5-8)
No Cream Puffs by Karen Day (Grades 5-8)
^ One Shot at Forever by Chris Ballard (Grades 9-12)
^ Opening Day by Jonathan Eig
Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages (Grades 4-8)
Out of Order by A.M. Jenkins (Grades 8-10)
Over the Wall by John Ritter (Grades 6-9)
Painting the Black by Carl Deuker (Grades 8-12)
Pinch Hit by Tim Green (Grades 5-8)
^ Playing with the Enemy by Gary Moore
Plunked by Michael Northrop (Grades 9+)
^ Pujols by Scott Lamb, Tim Ellsworth, and Joe Posnanski (Grades 9-12)
Rivals by Tim Green (Grades 5-8)
Samurai Shortstop by Alan Gratz (Grades 8-11)
See No Color by Shannon Gibney (Grades 9-12)
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup by Ron Koertge (Grades 6-9)
Shakespeare Makes the Playoffs by Ron Koertge (Grades 6-9)
^ Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella (Grades 9-12)
Singled Out by Andrew Maraniss
Six Innings by James Preller (Grades 5-8)
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
Striking Out by Will Weaver (Grades 8-12)
Summerland by Michael Chabon (Grades 5-9)
Swing by Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess (Grades 9-12)
^ The Belles of Baseball by Nel Yomtov (Grades 6-8)
The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John Ritter (Grades 5-8)
The Boy Who Would Not Play Ball by Robert Taylor Brewer
The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz (Grades 7-10)
The Big Field by Mike Lupica (Grades 4-8)
^ The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter by Ian O’Connor
The Comeback Season by Jennifer Smith (Grades 8-11)
The Crazy Horse Electric Game by Chris Crutcher (Grades 8-12)
The Desperado Who Stole Baseball by John Ritter (Grades 5-8)
The Girl who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane (Grades 5-9)
The Legend of Mickey Tussler by Franki Nappi (Grades 6-11)
The Natural by Bernard Malamud (Grades 9-12)
^ The Orlando Cepeda Story by Bruce Markusen (Grades 6-12)
The Pitcher by William Hazelgrove (Grades 9-12)
^ Tomboy by Liz Prince (Grades 9-12)
Top of the Order by John Coy (Grades 3-6)
^ We Are the Ship by Kadir Nelson (Grades 4-8)
You Don’t Know about Me by Brian Meehl (Grades 9-12)
