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It is a caper story about the retrieval of a valuable baseball card. The book was the first of a series, followed by Zoobreak, Framed!, Showoff, Hideout, Jackpot, Unleashed, and Jingle. [2] The book's cover signifies the plot's main thread about baseball cards, and features the characters running around a Baseball diamond.
Occasionally the books will also be illustrated with pictures taken exclusively for the book. [3] The Cambridge Companion to Baseball in its review of baseball fiction calls the books "an eclectic enterprise" which "uninhibitedly embraces the genre's cliches." [4] Library Journal called them "good examples" of traditional sports novels. [5]
The contents of the book report, for a work of fiction, typically include basic bibliographical information about the work, a summary of the narrative and setting, main elements of the stories of key characters, the author's purpose in creating the work, the student's opinion of the book, and a theme statement summing up the main idea drawn ...
In 1970, while working at a Boston bookstore, a customer inquired about books on baseball cards. Surprised to learn that there weren't any books on the subject, Harris told Boyd, "We should write one." [5] So they pored over the cards they had collected in their youth and wrote The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book.
It was designed after positive reader reaction to the tenth issue of the comic's cover, which showed cards for a hypothetical XXXenophile CCG. In 2001 this game was reworked into a non-adult, non-collectible card game called Girl Genius: The Works , [ 4 ] based on the Foglios' comic Girl Genius .
The Report Card is a children's novel by Andrew Clements, [1] first published in 2004. The story is narrated by a 5th-grade girl, Nora Rose Rowley. Nora is secretly a genius but does not tell anyone for fear that she will be thought of as "different".
The City of Heroes Collectible Card Game is an out-of-print trading card game based on the discontinued NCSoft MMORPG, City of Heroes. The card game was designed by David Williams, the designer responsible for other games such as Legend of the Five Rings. The initial product release from Alderac Entertainment Group was in January 2006.
Zhang Zhaozhong (張昭重; Zhāng Zhāozhòng), nicknamed "Fiery Hand Judge" (火手判官), is a highly skilled swordsman from the Wudang School.Tempted by wealth and fame, he decides to leave Wudang and serve the Qing government.