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Keeping Score

Linda Sue Park

2008208 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2008
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  • 2008Clarion Books · ENGISBN 9780618927999
  • 2010HarperCollins Publishers · ENGISBN 9781299891333
  • 2010Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 208 pages · ENGISBN 9780547394459

In Brooklyn in 1951, a die-hard Giants fan teaches nine-year-old Maggie, who is a "Bums" (Dodgers) fan, how to use a technique to keep score of a baseball game which creates a special friendship between them.

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