VIKING
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First published in the United States of America by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2015
Copyright © 2015 by Paul Volponi
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Volponi, Paul.
Game seven / Paul Volponi.
pages cm
Summary: “A sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba who dreams of playing with the pros must choose between his country and his father who defected to the U.S.”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-101-62154-7
[1. Baseball—Fiction. 2. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 3. Emigration and immigration—Fiction. 4. Defectors—Fiction. 5. Cuban Americans—Fiction. 6. Cuba—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.V8877Gam 2015
[Fic]—dc23
2014000118
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, or locales is entirely coincidental.