| Edition |
First paperback edition. |
| Description |
322, 10 pages ; 20 cm |
| Audience |
620 Lexile. |
| Note |
Originally published in hardcover: New York : HarperCollins, 2009. |
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Includes 10 pages of extras (Q&A with Julianna Baggott, Batter Up! Three Writing Exercises, and Red Sox Trivia!) |
| Audience |
"Ages 8-12." |
| Summary |
In the fall of 2004, twelve-year-old Oscar Egg is sent to live with his father in a strange netherworld under Boston's Fenway Park, where he joins the fairies, pooka, banshee, and other beings that are trapped there, waiting for someone to break the eighty-six-year-old curse that has prevented the Boston Red Sox from winning a World Series. |
| Contents |
The future Condo Prince of Baltimore -- The dusty, golden box -- The underlife of Fenway Park -- Home, of course! -- Under the pitcher's mound -- The first birthday gift -- The Curse -- The message inside of the curse -- Auntie Gormley dreams her soul elsewhere -- Oh, the Cursed Creatures! -- The Pooka and the Banshee -- The birthday party-more gifts -- The past -- The door to the past -- Meeting the Pooka--face-to-face, eye to glowing eye -- The weasel spy -- Teams -- A new coded message -- A race through time -- The roster of twelve-year-old greats -- Recruiting -- The lineup -- Auntie Feldelma's team -- The game between the greats -- Broken. |
| Subject |
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Orphans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
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Time travel -- Juvenile fiction.
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Paranormal fiction.
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Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) -- Fiction.
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Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.) -- Fiction.
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Baseball -- Fiction.
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Orphans -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Time travel -- Fiction.
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Supernatural -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons. (OCoLC)fst00921899
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Orphans. (OCoLC)fst01048433
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Paranormal fiction. (OCoLC)fst01775199
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Time travel. (OCoLC)fst01151176
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-- Fiction. Time travel.
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-- Fiction. Supernatural.
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-- Fiction. Baseball.
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-- Fiction. Father-son relationship.
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-- Fiction. Orphans.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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| ISBN |
9780060872441 (paperback) |
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0060872446 (paperback) |
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