Another title read for the Mock Newbery election. This one definitely isn't the strongest candidate. It was cute! But that's all it had going for it. It did its best to bring all the characters and seemingly random events together in a big finale, but it felt a little forced to me and didn't build up but rather resolved itself neatly in a matter of pages. The narrator's dialogue was certainly different, and I could see this being a much more interesting audio book than a read-to-yourself book. Calling the readers "sports fans", silly exclamations of "But gosh by golly"! and a most silly way of talking, I don't know if kids would like it or be annoyed by it. I was on the edge of that predicament myself. Anyway, the writing style is great for grades 3-5, but the main character human is a ginormous, over 6 foot, strangely immature, 12 year old. It was an odd character. This whole book was odd. I dunno. *shrugs*