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Play ball! That's what the sixth-grade Buckman Badgers baseball team plans on doing. Eddie Malloy and Jake Hatford hope to lead their team to the championship game the last Saturday in May. But due to a mix-up, Mrs. Hatford has to run a yard sale for the Women's Auxiliary of the Buckman Fire Department the very same day in their very own yard! Not wanting to miss out on the game, the family elects the only nonbaseball fan in the family, Wally, to stay home and help watch over the sale tables until they return. Wally's ticked off. On top of that, Caroline Malloy has written and will perform a play for a school project and has roped Wally into costarring with her. Let Caroline think she's so smart. Wally has his own reason for being in the play. It looks like the Hatfords could be totally humiliated after the girls stumble upon an embarrassing item from the boys' past. Leave it to Wally's secret plan to turn the tables on the girls' scheme and prove who's really in control! Boys rule! From the Hardcover edition.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 3-6-In the ninth of this series, the Hatford boys and the Malloy girls spend more time cooperating than fighting. Eddie and Jake both play for the Buckman Badgers in the sixth-grade baseball championship; after she chokes in the first game, he decides to practice with her for the good of the team. Meanwhile the community yard sale Mrs. Hatford has volunteered to host falls on the same day as their playoff game. She enlists a reluctant Wally to take over until she returns, and Caroline sees helping him as an opportunity to talk him into acting with her in a play she's writing for their fourth-grade English class. When the girls find a photo album full of humiliating pictures of the boys, Caroline blackmails Wally to keep his word about being the husband in her play. A subplot about two relatives of Amelia Bloomer trying to steal a framed picture from Wally's house before the sale opens provides suspense but strains credulity. It turns out the frame hides her original bloomers. Still, this is a fast-paced read, and fans of the series will welcome it. It should also interest baseball fans, especially girls, since there is plenty of action on the field.-Tina Zubak, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
The ninth book about the Hatford boys and the Malloy girls, Boys in Control by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, finds Eddie Malloy and Jake Hatford gearing up for a championship baseball game on the same day that Mrs. Hatford is slated to run a yard sale. Meanwhile, the Malloy girls find some embarrassing photos from the boys' past, but Wally Hatford finds a way to regain the upper hand. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
In the ninth book about the war between the Hatford brothers and the Malloy sisters, the girls gleefully threaten the boys with blackmail, even as sixth-grader Eddie Malloy and her teammate Jake Hatford must work together to win a baseball tournament. As usual in this amusing series, the ever-shifting balance of power between boys and girls keeps the reader guessing until the end. From HORN BOOK Spring 2004, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Gr. 3-5. The Hatford brothers and the Malloy sisters, who have battled their way through several previous books, are at odds once again. The girls get the upper hand this time after discovering embarrassing pictures of the boys. It's left to the boys to retrieve the pictures before being totally humiliated. Wally devises a successful scheme to turn the tables, proving to the sisters that boys rule . . . at least for now. Reynolds adds some mild intrigue with a subplot in which the boys devise a scheme to get out of helping at Mrs. Hartford's yard sale. Like the other books in this series, Naylor crafts a briskly paced story with a plot full of laughs and pranks. Series fans will be pleased with this lighthearted escapade; readers unfamiliar with the series will enjoy it, too. --Ed Sullivan Copyright 2003 Booklist