The Contract (12 page)

About the Authors

D
EREK
J
ETER
has played Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees for twenty seasons and is a five-time World Series champion. He is a true legend in professional sports and a role model for young people on and off the field and through his work in the community with his Turn 2 Foundation. For more information, visit
Turn2Foundation.org
.

Derek was born in New Jersey and moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan, when he was four. There he often attended Detroit Tigers games with his family, but the New York Yankees were always his favorite team, and he never stopped dreaming of playing for them.

P
AUL
M
ANTELL
is the author of more than one hundred books for young readers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jeter, Derek, 1974– author.

The contract / Derek Jeter ; with Paul Mantell. — First edition.

pages cm

Summary: In Kalamazoo, Michigan, eight-year-old Derek Jeter, who dreams of playing for the New York Yankees, learns what it takes to be a champion on and off the field.

ISBN 978-1-4814-2312-0 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4814-2314-4 (eBook)

1. Jeter, Derek, 1974– —Childhood and youth—Juvenile fiction. [1. Jeter,

Derek, 1974– —Childhood and youth—Fiction. 2. Baseball—Fiction. 3. Goal

(Psychology)—Fiction. 4. Teamwork (Sports)—Fiction.] I. Mantell, Paul,

author. II. Title.

PZ7.J55319Co 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2014004045