Ebook {Epub PDF} Rooting for Rafael Rosales by Kurtis Scaletta

Her summer project to grow a patch of prairie in her backyard to attract and shelter pollinators—bees—is painfully derailed by an insecticide made by her father’s company. Scaletta deftly weaves worry, optimism, and determination together in Rafael’s struggle Author: Kurtis Scaletta. Rooting for Rafael Rosales. By Kurtis Scaletta. Rafael has dreams. Every chance he gets he plays in the street games trying to build his skills, get noticed by scouts, and—someday—play Major League Baseball. Maya has www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 1 min. Rooting for Rafael Rosales hits for the cycle with its multilayered storylines, and Scaletta triumphs with a grand slam. – BookPage Scaletta weaves a powerful story of two children whose realities seem entirely dissimilar but, in truth, converge in significant ways, namely in their desire to excel and make a www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins.

Kurtis Scaletta is the author of eleven books for young readers. Many of them are about baseball, but he has also written about snakes, robots, and giant fungi. He grew up in five states and Rooting for Rafael Rosales Teacher's Guide Author: Kurtis Scaletta Created Date. ROOTING FOR RAFAEL ROSALES. by Kurtis Scaletta. Age Range: 9 - 13 Brown-skinned Rafael falls in love with baseball in his hometown of San Pedro de Macoris. He plays in the neighborhood with a sock-wrapped stone for a ball and a stick for a bat and later in the nearby campo. MORE BY KURTIS SCALETTA. Children. THE WINTER OF THE ROBOTS. by. Rooting for Rafael Rosales | Rafael has dreams to someday play Major League Baseball. Maya has worries, especially about the bees that are dying all over the world. Follow Rafael and Maya in a story that shifts back and forth in time and place, from Minnesota to the Dominican Republic.

Rooting for Rafael Rosales Kurtis Scaletta Review by Lori K. Joyce. Ap The unlikely pairing of a young girl from Minnesota obsessed with bees and an up. Rooting for Rafael Rosales. Follow Rafael and Maya in a story that shifts back and forth in time and place, from Rafael’s neighborhood in the Dominican Republic to present-day Minnesota, where Maya and her sister are following Rafael’s first year in the minor leagues. More The Winter of the Robots. Rafael is a struggling Minor League Baseball player when year-old Maya first sees him. He's the.