Abner & Me (Baseball Card Adventures)
Worth buying if: You enjoy Dan Gutman’s Baseball Card Adventures series and its mix of baseball lore.
Skip it if: You want realistic contemporary middle-grade drama without supernatural elements.
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Summary
In Abner & Me (Baseball Card Adventures), a modern kid discovers a 1940 Abner baseball card that drags him into the past, mixing baseball history, mischief, and fast-paced capsized timelines across 166 pages.
Why this book now
Gutman’s playful take on baseball lore and collectible-card magic still hooks young readers who love sports history and time-travel capers.
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Best for readers who...
Good fit if you want...
- You enjoy Dan Gutman’s Baseball Card Adventures series and its mix of baseball lore.
- You’re drawn to kid-focused time-travel plots centered on a historical baseball figure.
- If you favor lyrical short chapters, the relationship develops slowly and realistically.
- You want realistic contemporary middle-grade drama without supernatural elements.
- You prefer long, slow literary novels rather than short, action-driven children’s books.
Decided it fits?
Exact edition: Paperback · ISBN-13 9780060534455
Worth buying if: You enjoy Dan Gutman’s Baseball Card Adventures series and its mix of baseball lore.
Skip it if: You want realistic contemporary middle-grade drama without supernatural elements.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
Reader guide
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Reading commitment
Quick Easy to move through
At 166 pages, this brisk HarperCollins Children’s paperback reads quickly across a few evenings—ideal for middle-grade readers or a short family read-aloud.
What stands out here
This HarperCollins Children’s edition emphasizes Gutman’s trademark humor and baseball-card premise, suitable for classroom circulation and sports-leaning readers.
Best way to approach it
Approach it as a swift, plot-driven romp: skim for historical baseball references, enjoy Gutman’s jokes, and expect episodic chapters that favor momentum over deep exposition.
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Paperback: ISBN-13 9780060534455
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