Jennifer E Smith

The Comeback Season Jennifer E Smith Reissue edition

Publisher Marketing: Baseball brings them together--but will his secret keep them apart? Find out in this heartbreakingly beautiful novel from Jennifer E. Smith, author of "The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight." The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading to Wrigley Field. She should be in class, enduring yet another miserable day of her first year of high school. But for once, Ryan isn't thinking about what she should be doing. She's not worried about her lack of friends, or her suffering math grade, or how it's been five whole years since the last time she was really and truly happy. Because she's finally returning to the place that her father loved, where the two of them spent so many afternoons cheering on their team. And on this--the fifth anniversary of his death--it feels like there's nowhere else in the world she should be. Ryan is once again filled with hope as she makes her way to the game. Good luck is often hard to come by at a place like Wrigley Field, but it's on this day that she meets Nick, the new kid from her school, who seems to love the Cubs nearly as much as she does. But Nick carries with him a secret that makes Ryan wonder if anyone can ever really escape their past, or believe in the promise of those reassuring words: "Wait till next year." Is it too much for Ryan to hope that this year, this season, might be her comeback season? Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 02/01/2008 pg. 154 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 02/18/2008 pg. 156 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2008 pg. 308 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) School Library Journal 04/01/2008 pg. 148 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) Booklist 03/01/2008 pg. 60 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2008 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2008 pg. 184 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2008 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2008 pg. 107 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) Hornbook Guide to Children 10/01/2008 pg. 379 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) Wilson Middle/Junior Hi Catalo 01/01/2009 pg. 1005 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 1060 (EAN 9781416938477, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Smith, Jennifer E Jennifer E. Smith is the author of "Hello, "Goodbye and Everything in Between, "The Geography of You and Me", "This Is What Happy Looks Like", "The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight", "The Storm Makers", "You Are Here", and "The Comeback Season". She earned her master's degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews, and her work has been translated into thirty languages.