Double Play at Short 12-year-old Danny Walker plays shortstop in for the Bullets baseball team. He lives in a small town. He had been thinking about a girl on the Jaguars named Tammy Aiken. Danny thought that she looked familiar. They batted the same, they played shortstop the same, and they look like twins (except they are boy and girl), and they were both adopted. Read it in Matt Christopher’s Double Play at Short.
The main characters are Danny Walker, Jennifer Walker, and Tammy Aiken. They each play baseball and were all adopted. Danny and Tammy are actually twins, but don’t know it. Danny’s problem is that Tammy is out-playing Danny at shortstop. For some reason, Danny recognizes Tammy from somewhere, but he doesn’t know where. Danny talks to his mom about the problem.
She tells him to go to the attic with her. She shows him an old newspaper. It read, “A women was on her way to the hospital because she was having 2 babies. On the way, a drunk driver hit her. The husband died right away while the wife had the babies, then died. The babies were twins.
One was a boy and one was a girl. Then, his mom told him that Tammy was his sister! She ran in terror and fright. She felt so bad after she had been getting in his face about how he had been watching her. I would recommend this to kids from ages 5 through 12.
It teaches about adoption and sad feelings. Also because Matt Christopher is a children’s written.
