T-Ball Trouble

By Cari Meister and Jannie Ho

My First Graphic Novel These books are the perfect introduction to the world of safe, appealing graphic novels. Each story uses familiar topics, repeating patterns, and core vocabulary words appropriate for a beginning reader. Combine the entertaining story with comic book panels, exciting action elements, and bright colors and a safe graphic novel is born. A useful chart will teach the reader how to follow the graphic format, and the discussion questions at the end are the perfect review tool.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capstone Young Readers
• Release date: May 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781666301311

Cari Meister

Cari Meister has written more than 130 books for children, including the Tiny series (Penguin) and the Fast Forward Fairy Tales series (Scholastic).  Cari is a school librarian and she loves to visit other schools and libraries to talk about the joy of reading and writing.  Cari lives in the mountains of Colorado with her husband, four boys, one horse, and one dog.  You can find out more about her at www.carimeister.com.

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Reviews for T-Ball Trouble

[hemlock91 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

This is a "graphic novel" about a young boy named Marco who learns to play t-ball. The story begins with him buying his gear and practicing, then leads into his first game. During his game, he keeps hitting foul balls. The coach tells him that he believes in him and Marco starts hitting correctly. The team loses in the end but they had fun and tried hard.For a graphic novel, the illustrations are very boring. Marco has the same smile in 80% of the pictures. I think a graphic novel should have illustrations that hold up on their own. This one does not have that.Another thing that I did care for was the scene where Marco was hitting multiple foul balls. No where in the story did it say how he was feeling. It just says he hit foul balls and then his coach came out to talk to him and then he wasn't hitting foul balls anymore. The only clue the reader gets into how he was feeling was a small frown on his face in the picture.I love the idea of this book, so I gave it 2 stars. I also can see young sports-fans wanting to check this book out from the library.