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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?

Produktbeschreibung
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?
Autorenporträt
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.