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Babe Ruth and the Ice Cream Mess

Ready-to-Read Level 2

Illustrated by Elaine Garvin

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About The Book

Learn all about the childhood of America's most famous baseball player in this nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read!

CRASH! Young George (Babe) Ruth sends his friends' baseball right through a kitchen window. George runs in fear all the way to his father's tavern, where he finds a dollar. That's enough money to buy ice cream for all his friends to make up for the lost ball! So he takes it. Even as a boy Babe Ruth was generous. But sometimes, it got him into big trouble...

About The Author

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Dan Gutman

Dan Gutman hated to read when he was a kid. Then he grew up. Now he writes cool books like The Kid Who Ran for President; Honus & Me; The Million Dollar Shot; Race for the Sky; and The Edison Mystery: Qwerty Stevens, Back in Time. If you want to learn more about Dan or his books, stop by his website at DanGutman.com.

About The Illustrator

Elaine Garvin

Product Details

  • Publisher: Simon Spotlight (March 1, 2004)
  • Length: 32 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780689855290
  • Ages: 5 - 7
  • Lexile ® 440L The Lexile reading levels have been certified by the Lexile developer, MetaMetrics®
  • Fountas & Pinnell™ J These books have been officially leveled by using the F&P Text Level Gradient™ Leveling System

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