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Books and authors top teaching blog teachers tool kit student activities. Little, brown books for young readers december 2, 2009. Prompt delivery and email notifications are given to each and every buyer. Shortstop from tokyo by matt christopher book cover, description, publication history. Stogie crane wants to play shortstop for the mohawks, but a new boy from japan is assigned to the position. Two decades later, 16yearold toyo shimada is concerned only with surviving his first day at first higher school of tokyo and making the ichiko baseball team.
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