Alan Gratz book, The Brooklyn Nine, is a story told in nine innings about a boy named Felix Schneider who dreams of being the fastest base runner for the New York Knickerbockers baseball team. Felix makes his own baseball, which is passed down through the generations. His legs were hurt badly when he tried to run away from a burning building that had things inside it that exploded. He decides he will not let his injure keep him from his love of baseball. In the second inning the next generation from Felix’s family is introduced. We then find ourselves in the Civil War. Felix’s son Louis is a Yankee soldier who finds himself with an injured Confederate soldier. As a reward of friendship and good luck he gives his prized baseball to the injured soldier and receives a baseball bat in return. Although I would like to tell you more about this book but I will let you pick it up and read it yourself. I found this book to be exciting in a way that I always wanted to see what was going to happen next. It was a fairly quick read one of the things I liked about this book was that it is not predictable. If you like sports books this book will be right for you and you will learn not to give up like Felix did not give up and kept playing. My feel for the pacing of the book was that it was pretty long in some parts but overall it had good pacing. The descriptiveness was okay throughout the novel but it could have been a little bit better during some intense parts like the building on fire part that I told you about he uses good description during those parts. The ending I thought was very good it ended in way so you were not like what is going to happen next it ended in a positive way and not a way that make most readers confused. I would recommend it to all readers but especially sports players. The Brooklyn Nine Book ReviewBy- Alan Gratz In this story they’re aren’t chapters, just sections. In one section there is a big disaster in the lower half of Manhattan, New York. Each section has a different main character. The sections are spread out by around 15 years the characters are all related, it goes from generation to generation. There are objects that get passed down and are a big part in all of their lives because they all loved baseball and or softball. I thought that “The Brooklyn Nine” was overall a fantastic book. Each character faced a new set of challenges. The only thing that was hard for me to understand was that every 30 pages technology changed, characters changed, and just about everything changed except for the special objects. If I were rate it I’d give it a 4/5 star. I enjoyed reading, “The Brooklyn Nine”. By- Justin Pokorny
What do You think about The Brooklyn Nine (2009)?
Battle of the Books 2013--this was much better than I had anticipated
—madhead
Great for middle school, loved the change in time periods.
—gerardo
An amazing Story line with a sad but great conclusion
—sunny
Not as good as Samurai Shortstop but an okay read.
—JRS1
