Left-Handed Shortstop

Left-Handed Shortstop by Giff, Patricia Reilly. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780440446729.

What is Walter Moles to do? A budding ecologist, hed rather pick up bugs with his pooter than field baseballs. But the honor of the fourth grade is at stake because the fifth grade had challenged it to a baseball game. In the excitement, Goony, the hotheaded captain of the fourth-grade team, chooses Walter as his star shortstop. And Goony wont give Walter a chance to confess that hes a lousy ball player or to tell him that there hasnt been a left-handed shortstop since 1892. Walter has got to become a great shortstop in a hurry or else find a way to weasel out of the game. Can his good pal Casey Valentine scheme up a surefire strategy that will keep Walter from striking out?