Choosing up Sides

Choosing up Sides by John H. Ritter, written by one of fifth grade teacher’s husbands, at Explore Elementary Charter School, is fabulous. This book is about a boy named Luke Bledsoe, a preacher’s boy, wanting to play baseball. He also wanted to play using his left hand, but it was against his father and church, and was considered a sin to use your left hand or to play baseball. Luke was under pressure. His mother’s brother uncle Micah and a boy at Luke’s school, Dexter lappman are telling him that he was making a mistake for letting that amazing opportunity go by, and that he should play baseball. In this book, what you will see is luck standing up to his father and going to play baseball. All went well until a terrible thing happened. Some of the burning questions I had were what happened after Luke’s father died? Where did they move next? Did they even move out of their house that they were staying in? Does he get to play baseball, now that his father has passed away? Maybe these questions will be answered. But then again, maybe not.