Running the Bases: Definitely Not a Book About Baseball by Paul Kropp (English)

Description: Running the Bases by Paul Kropp A hilariously honest look at the misadventures of teenage dating.Alan Macklin is your average 17-year-old guy with a simple goal. He wants to get a girl. But trial and error has made one thing perfectly clear: when it comes to the opposite sex, Alan keeps on striking out. Repeatedly. And painfully. He knows he needs help. His friend Jeremy proves useless, so he turns to someone who might actually have some good advice.Maggie Macpherson has lots of goals for herself, including a career in law or psychology or both, but she needs some cash to reach them. Alan becomes the perfect client for her new consulting business: a desperate guy with a simple objective and deep pockets. For a fee, she takes on the Alan project and coaches him from girl to girl, base to base.With Maggies guidance Alan comically builds his dating experience until hes convinced he can get along without her coaching. But soon hes washed up on the romantic shores, dumped by the woman of his dreams. Once again, theres only one person who can give Alan the advice he needs... but he has to be willing to listen. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Paul Kropp is the author of more than fifty novels for young people. His work includes six award- winning young adult novels, many books for reluctant readers, and four illustrated books for beginning readers. He also writes non-fiction books and articles for parents, and is a popular speaker on issues related to reading and education. Excerpt from Book 1 You Dont Start with a Home Run "You dont start with a home run," Jeremy said. "A what?" I replied. "You dont start off with some girl jumping in bed with you. Youve got to run the bases, you know, the first kiss, the messing around . . . and then you get to home base." "Oh, home base," I mumbled. A girl named Allison was walking by and had caught my eye. She did a little modelling around town, sometimes appearing in newspaper supplements dressed in revealing lingerie. Today she was dressed in baggy sweats, with no makeup and fly-away hair, but she was still gorgeous. "And you dont start with somebody like that," Jeremy went on. We both watched Allison disappear in the distance. "Youve got to start with somebody in your league," Jeremy told me. "What league is that?" "Like maybe peewee. Face it, Alan, youre never going to make it with any of the hot girls around here." Jeremy and I were in the high-school cafeteria, looking around at the various groups nearby. There was a pattern to the way people sat at the tables. Rich kids sat with rich kids, eating the expensive pizza slices; poor kids sat with poor kids eating their brown-bag lunches; smart kids sat with smart kids, actually talking about math or history; the hot girls sat with the other hot girls; the losers with the losers; and I sat with Jeremy. We were beginning the Alan projecta systematic effort to find a girl for me. Jeremy was my project manager. At the age of seventeen, I just decided it was time to move on from my dateless, romanceless adolescent life. I decided it was time to abandon my fantasy girls, dream dates and jpegs and actually go out with a real girl. My friend Jeremy has been going out with girls since grade five, long before I knew him. He tells me that his sex appeal mystifies even himself, but Jeremy deals with it philosophically as a burden he has to carry. I cant understand his success with girls either, since Jeremy isnt particularly good looking and has an unusual amount of spit on his lips most of the time, a trait that gives the general impression that hes drooling. But theres no accounting for the choices of women, I tell myself. Look at Andr Details ISBN0770429750 Author Paul Kropp Short Title Running the Bases Pages 208 Series Running the Bases Language English ISBN-10 0770429750 ISBN-13 9780770429751 Audience Age 12 Publisher Random House USA Inc Format Paperback Imprint Random House USA Inc Country of Publication India Year 2008 Publication Date 2008-02-26 Subtitle Definitely Not a Book About Baseball UK Release Date 2008-02-26 DEWEY 813.54 Series Number 1 Audience Teenage / Young adult We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141723308;

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