Heart of a Champion

Carl Deuker

May 2009 · Sold by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

About this ebook

Jimmy Winter is a born star on the baseball field, and Seth Barnam can only dream of being as talented. Still, the two baseball fanatics have the kind of friendship that should last forever. But when Seth experiences an unthinkable loss, he's forced to find his own personal strength--on and off the field.

An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
An ALA Best Book for Reluctant Readers
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Book of the Year

Ratings and reviews

This book taught me that teenagers always make mistakes but they should have learned from the first several mistakes and change right away not making the mistakes again and again because something bad will happen to the person who makes same and same mistakes. Seth lost his father and his mother was the only relative that Seth has. Seth met a new friend Jimmy at the baseball field and it was the beginning baseball life of Seth. Jimmy was serious about baseball and his father trains Jimmy every weekend and that day Seth joined and played for fun but baseball hooked him that day then Seth goes to the park every weekend but it changed after Jimmy's parents were getting divorce because of the father became alcohol addicted. It changed Jimmy, and one older teenager gave Seth and Jimmy the beers and that moment the boys were kind of addicted to it and faced several disappointments in school and of course, the baseball team. Jimmy had to move out to different city because of parents reason and had to be far away from Seth then it made Seth lose the motivation to continue baseball. But Seth did not give up at the end and he actually got what he want, but Jimmy did not. Why? Find out yourself.

Heart of a champion is my all time favorite book. I used to hate reading but my teacher said it would be a good book to start with. This book opened my eyes on how amazing books can be and, the great stories they tell.

The greatest book ever. I loved it the first time I read it in high school.( I'm a softball gal) It became my favorite book. Now it's 10years later, and it's still my favorite book.