Strike Three, You're Dead (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307930064)

An Edgar Award Finalist

Lenny Norbeck is a die-hard baseball lover. Unfortunately, he's no player himself (according to him, he's "the worst there ever was.") But he'd make a heck of an announcer. He gets a lot of practice sitting with his best friends, Mike and Other Mike, watching Phillies games from their lawn couch--a sweet outdoor TV arrangement Mike's dad hooked them up with. Being a real announcer is his dream, and he gets his chance to prove himself when he enters an "Armchair Announcer" contest and wins. The prize: he gets to be the broadcaster, live, for one inning at a real Phillies game.

The game goes very wrong, though. Before Lenny gets to do his inning, a young, promising pitcher fresh out of the minors literally drops dead on the mound. The official verdict is that he died of a heart attack, but Lenny has a hunch there's something more going on. So he and the Mikes set out to investigate. The suspects are many, and though the trio barks up the wrong tree a few times, they are always right on the heels of the real killer. . . .

Author: Josh Berk
ISBN-10: 0307930068
ISBN-13: 9780307930064
Publisher: Yearling Books
Language: English
Published: 03/11/2014
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.10w x 0.80d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.1
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 157686 / Strike Three, You're Dead