The Brooklyn Nine

The Brooklyn Nine is broken down into nine different stories, one story per chapter. Each story has different main characters that are from the same family but from different generations. It starts out in 1845 during the Great New York City Fire of 1845 and goes through major events during American......more

Imagine if you were a soldier and saw a blind and lost enemy; would you kill him? Would you sacrifice your chance of getting into college to be benevolent towards your neighbors? Those are just a handful of events that the Schneider children faced in their generations of existence. The brilliant his......more

I give The Brooklyn Nine a three-star rating because it was all over the place. This book is about 9 different people that are all a part of the same family in different time periods. They all had a connection to baseball even though they lived several hundred years a part. This book targets teenage......more

A nice collection of generational stories that link baseball with the momentous events of our nation's history. In nine "innings," we follow a German immigrant's family tree from a Civil War battlefield to a memorabilia shop in the early 21st century. There are themes of class, race, gender, and the......more

I don't exactly know why I'm always shocked when I love a sports-fiction novel. I shouldn't be shocking to me at this point. Quality middle-grade/young-adult fiction is quality fiction, no matter what the subject matter. This one just really resonated with me. A microcosm of baseball and American hi......more