Winner of the 1999
IRA Children's Book Award
"A dramatic and
inspirational story."
—The Los Angeles Times
"Choosing Up Sides is a fast-moving, hard-hitting story. This first novel by John H. Ritter is a winner!"
—Dr. M. Jerry Weiss
Professor Emeritus
Jersey City State College |
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"It made a hush come. It was like a giant cloud full of quiet had blown up and smothered every single shout.
They all stopped and looked at me.
"You see that?" I heard one say.
And I knew I'd done wrong. I'd tossed that baseball straighter and farther than any rock I'd ever thrown, and I was so sorry about it. How I's raised, it wasn't allowed.
Bad enough throwing that baseball. But I had used the Devil's arm."
(excerpt from Choosing Up Sides) |
