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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1970
  • Latest Book:
    April 1992
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Book List in Order: 21 titles








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    Paul's got to play the toughest game of all. Paul Mather's a pitcher -- a really good one. His off-speed pitch is enough to bowl a kid backward, and his fast ball is pure smoke. There isn't anything he can't throw, from sliders, change-ups, and si...



  • Bill Taylor is a good ballplayer on Miller’s Laundry, a bad team. More than anything he wants his father to move the family back to California where he’d played on a good team. But then Tony Spain joins Miller’s Laundry and turns it around. Ton...



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    On Jack's tenth birthday, his parents give him just what he wants--a robot. The robot's name is Danny One, and he looks just like Jack, except for his stiff-in-the-knees robot walk. He can do everything Jack can do, from fourth-grade math to fishing,...





  • Jake, a tough, independent eleven-year-old ballplayer lives with his Uncle Lenny, a musician, and pretty much takes care of himself. His baseball team, the Print-Alls, is in first place, but they need a coach in order to stay in the League. No one's ...













  • STAR PITCHER Danny Gargan is the star pitcher for his Arborville baseball team. His father, Chicago White Sox catcher Matt Gargan, is divorced from his mother with whom Danny lives. But Danny still hopes that when his father retires from the major l...





  • Traveling by VOYA-CODE, it takes Jack only a few seconds to get to the planet where his aunt lives, six million light years away. Jack has gone to Alpha I to help his aunt move to Earth. But Aunt Katherine is acting very strangely, not like herself a...



  • "We have troubles," Dr. Atkins announced grimly to Jack Jameson and his robot buddy, Danny One. "The whole world has troubles. The universe will have troubles." Leopold Atkins is the creator of Danny One and the famous almost-human Atkins robots. ...



  • Eleven-year old Robbie and his thirteen-year-old sister, Peggy, involve themselves in some elaborate schemes to discourage their widowed father's budding romance and to persuade him to move back to their old hometown....





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    Andy Harris's fabulous baseball card collection, left to him by his father, is the envy of every baseball fan in town. Still, Andy would rather play ball than collect cards. He's got a natural talent for the game, like his grandfather, pro ball playe...






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    "I've got a coach for our team!" When the coach says Jason is thinking more about baseball-card collecting than about ball playing, he cuts him from the team. Jason will have to play on the Little League's new expansion team -- the reject team -- ...



Award-Winning Books by Alfred Slote

My Robot Buddy
1981 Nene Award -- Children's Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alfred Slote has published 21 books.

Alfred Slote does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Make-Believe Ball Player, was published in April 1992.

The first book by Alfred Slote, Stranger on the Ball Club, was published in January 1970.

No. Alfred Slote does not write books in series.