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Tavares, Matt

Growing Up Pedro

40 pp. | Candlewick | February, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-6824-2 $16.99

(2) K-3 Tavares highlights the warm relationship between two baseball greats, brothers Ramón and Pedro Martínez, covering their youth in 1980s Dominican Republic; their signings with the Dodgers; Pedro's eventual contract with the Red Sox and heroics in the 1999 playoffs; and their present-day return to the Dominican Republic, where they have built churches, schools, and baseball fields. Gouache and watercolor paintings lovingly depict both players. Bib.

Reviewer: Robin L. Smith | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2015