The Right Call
A Game Changer Companion Novel
Harry N. Abrams · Print & ebook · April 15, 2025
From award-winning author Tommy Greenwald comes a thrilling companion novel to Game Changer that explores the growing pressures in youth sports, and the lengths some parents will go to make sure their kid comes out on top A Junior Library Guild Selection Cal Klondike’s life revolves around baseball.
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- Who it’s for
- A companion novel with enough game-day pulse to keep things moving, and enough restraint to stay.
- Genres
- Baseball & Softball, Growing Up, Navigating Peer Pressure
- Published
- Harry N. Abrams, April 15, 2025
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From award-winning author Tommy Greenwald comes a thrilling companion novel to Game Changer that explores the growing pressures in youth sports, and the lengths some parents will go to make sure their kid comes out on top A Junior Library Guild Selection Cal Klondike’s life revolves around baseball. He’s the Walthorne Baseball Academy’s star pitcher, and everyone from his coach to his dad to the town sports blogger is telling Cal he has an unlimited future in the sport.
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But with all this attention comes a lot of added stress, especially as the season kicks into high gear and college and pro scouts start to show up at the games. Inevitably, tensions that have been bubbling under the surface finally boil over, culminating in a confrontation that could change Cal’s relationship to baseball forever. Told through a combination of transcripts, articles, texts, and emails, The Right Call is a gripping, fast-paced story for middle grade readers about our split-second decisions, facing the consequences, and the courage it takes to forgive. Read all of the books in the Game Changer series: Game Changer Rivals Dinged
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A companion novel with enough game-day pulse to keep things moving, and enough restraint to stay.
Come here for
- sports-story momentum
- classroom-friendly companion read
Expect
- middle-grade register
- football-and-baseball adjacent signals
Where it sits
| Baseball & Softball | 87% |
|---|---|
| Navigating Peer Pressure | 71% |
| Growing Up | 40% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Illness & Injury
- Baseball & Softball
- Values & Virtues
- Authors
- Tommy Greenwald
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Published
- April 15, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Illness & Injury