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John's first novel:
Choosing Up Sides

"A dramatic and
inspirational story."
The Los Angeles Times

"Like the best...sports novels
of Robert Lipsyte, Chris Crutcher,
or Walter Dean Myers, this novel
goes well beyond the issues
involved in a game...
Authentic...suspenseful...excellent..."
—Dr. Marjorie M. Kaiser,
The ALAN Review

"Choosing Up Sides
is a fast-moving, hard-hitting story.
This first novel
by John H. Ritter is a winner!"
—Dr. M. Jerry Weiss
Professor Emeritus
Jersey City State College

Winner of the 1999
IRA Children's Book Award Choosing Up Sides bookcover

    "It made a hush come. It was like a giant cloud full of quiet had blown up and smothered every single shout.
    They all stopped and looked at me.
    "You see that?" I heard one say.
    And I knew I'd done wrong. I'd tossed that baseball straighter and farther than any rock I'd ever thrown, and I was so sorry about it. How I's raised, it wasn't allowed.
    Bad enough throwing that baseball. But I had used the Devil's arm."

(excerpt from Choosing Up Sides)

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