The Comeback Season
by Jennifer E. Smith
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Author: Jennifer E. SmithEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-03-04
ISBN: 1416938478
Number of pages: 256
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Book Review: Terrific book for teens
Summary: 5 Stars
As a public librarian, I review a lot of books, particularly young adult titles so I can make useful suggestions to patrons. This is one of the best I've read in the past three years. The author blended angst, loss, grief, blended families, changing friendships, illness, the love of a baseball team and secrets to create a seamless story that grabbed me on page one and didn't let me free until the following evening when I finished it with a sigh. It has an ending that, unlike many books, is a bit ambiguous, just like real life. This is one I will really push to my YA summer readers as a great book that will both captivate and provoke feelings.
Summary of The Comeback Season
The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading to Wrigley Field. She should be in class, enduring yet another miserable day of her first year of high school. But for once, Ryan isn't thinking about what she should be doing. She's not worried about her lack of friends, or her suffering math grade, or how it's been five whole years since the last time she was really and truly happy. Because she's finally returning to the place that her father loved, where the two of them spent so many afternoons cheering on their team. And on this -- the fifth anniversary of his death -- it feels like there's nowhere else in the world she should be.Ryan is once again filled with hope as she makes her way to the game. Good luck is often hard to come by at a place like Wrigley Field, but it's on this day that she meets Nick, the new kid from her school, who seems to love the Cubs nearly as much as she does. But Nick carries with him a secret that makes Ryan wonder if anyone can ever really escape their past, or believe in the promise of those reassuring words: "Wait till next year." Is it too much for Ryan to hope that this year, this season, might be her comeback season?
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