Stealing Home: Intimate Family Portrait by the Daughter of Jackie Robinson, an

Stealing Home is a great book because it talks sometimes about what happens in life. It is a good book. It talks about not to judge people by their first impresion. Their first impresion can sometimes be totaly wrong. The charecters are Thomas who loves baseball,Grandfather who is very wise,and Aunt Linzy who likes everything to be clean. If you want to know the rest read the book because I am not telling you anymore.

Stealing Home is a spectacular book. I'm going to tell you all about it. Thomas's Aunt Linzy comes to visit and takes over the house. She took Ringo and and folds all their clothe. She is very picky. Then once Grandfather and Thomas get to know her she is a pretty good person. She makes them lemonade and paints the house. She also toook Thomas to the store. Although they didn't want her to paint the house she didn't know that. now, she is changing she's nice and rude, but she's not all that bad. she yells at them alot like when she said, "it's not good to fish you can hurt them." I don't want to give it away so go ahead and read. Enjoy!

This is a novel about a boy named Thomas who lost his parents at age 1 and has lived with his grandfather since then. He and his grandfather have developed similar interests (baseball, fishing, games) and have become very comfortable with their bachelor-type lifestyle. Then a great aunt comes to live in their cramped house. All sorts of adjustments have to be made and Thomas is not happy with the situation. After numerous struggles, Thomas learns that his aunt actually contributes to the benefit of the household in some ways, and that not all change is bad. In short, the characters begin to make allowances for each other. At that point in the book the aunt gets a job offer complete with lodging, and Thomas is left to ponder what has happened over the last year. The book does assume the reader is familiar with baseball terminology, as the boy and his grandfather discuss the professional baseball scene occasionally. The book is appropriate for about the fourth/fifth grade reading level. While it is not one of the first books I would choose for my children to read, it was enjoyable overall, and I believe it holds value for children of this age, especially for those who have never had to make any sort of major change or adjustment in their lives.