The Prince and the Pauper revisited with a movie star/baseball player in the main character roles. Trevor Goldman is a movie star with a Hollywood mansion, a limo, a famous director father...everything. He would love to play baseball. His mother arranges for him to play with the pro baseball team L.A. Dodgers for his birthday, but he realizes that they are playing down t accommodate him. Enter Sam Palomaki who does play baseball, in fact, he has a chance at winning MVP and a scholarship to play pro ball. He lives in a trailer near a dump with his dad who is trying to break into the movies by writing scripts. To make some extra money, Sam signs up at Casting Central, is immediately signed on as Trevor's stand in, and almost as immediately fired. The boys look so much alike they could be twins. Can they trade places so Trevor can play baseball and Sam can find a market for his father's script? This is an extraordinarily well-written sports story that is next to impossible to put down. Although the ending is emotionally satisfying and heartwarming, I really didn't feel as if Trevor's parents were acting in character.
Mark Twain Award Preliminary Nominee 2014-15
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