Lucky Enough
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Like many athletes, Trey is superstitious. How could he not be when he just made the Ravens travel baseball team thanks to his lucky charm, a piece of rare sea glass he found on his grandmotherтАЩs beach?
This stroke of good fortune reinforces TreyтАЩs superstitions, and his rituals only become more important to him. Despite some teasing from his teammates, he persists in never stepping on the foul line, obsessively tapping the corners of home plate when heтАЩs at bat, and always choosing the same lucky bat. And his tactics are working; heтАЩs doing quite well on the field and in the batterтАЩs box.
Then one day Trey canтАЩt find his lucky sea glass. His performance begins to slip, and heтАЩs convinced his future with the Ravens is doomed. Things donтАЩt start to improve until TreyтАЩs uncle reminds him of his grandmotherтАЩs favorite saying: тАЬThe harder you work, the luckier you get.тАЭ
Can Trey take these words to heart and find his swing again┬а.┬а.┬а. even without his lucky charm?
This ebook features an afterword about famous real-life players with their own lucky charms and superstitions.
Discussion Guide available
тАЬA former kidsтАЩ baseball coach and the writer of the Washington Post sports column for young readers, Bowen adds an entertaining note on baseball superstitions.┬а.┬а.┬а. The straightforward story will appeal to young players as well as older ones intimidated by longer novels.тАЭ тАФBooklistрд▓реЗрдЦрдХ рдХреЗ рдмрд╛рд░реЗ рдореЗрдВ
His dad loved sports. One of BowenтАЩs earliest memories is watching the 1957 World Series on TV with his dad and his brothers. BowenтАЩs dad was his Little League coach and his brothers were his teammates in backyard football and тАЬdriveway basketball.тАЭ
When Bowen turned eighteen, he left behind his sports-happy childhood and headed to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Bowen has always loved US and world history and he made history his major in college. Bowen also loves sports history because of all the great dramas and big personalities, which is why he weaves real sports history into all of his stories.
After he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, he went to George Washington Law School in Washington, DC.
Shortly after he graduated, he met Peggy Jackson, a journalist. They got married two years later and now have two grown children. Their son is a college baseball coach and their daughter works for a nonprofit in Chicago. When they were in elementary school, Bowen coached their baseball, basketball, and soccer teamsтАФmore than thirty teams in all.
тАЛBowen was a lawyer for many years and retired from practicing law so that he could write for kids full time. He gets to spend a lot more time writing and he gets more time to visit schools and talk with kids about his books. He also speaks at a lot more conferences and meets more cool teachers and librarians.
