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Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest

Guernsey Van Riper Jr and Paul Laune

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Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest by Van Riper Jr, Guernsey
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In this edition of one of the most popular series for children, young readers will learn about famous baseball player Lou Gehrig's childhood.

One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies--easily read by children aged eight and up--today's youngster is swept into history.

Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 10/31/1986
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.3lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780020419303
Age: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 3.8
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 810 / Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest

About the Author
Van Riper Jr, Guernsey: - Guernsey Van Riper, Jr. attended DePauw University in 1926. He earned two varsity letters as quarterback on the football team and one letter as a first baseman on the baseball team. After graduating, he worked in advertising then became an editor at Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company. He turned his love of sports into books, writing biographies of Lou Gehrig and Knute Rockne along with ten other children's books.