from PghDragonMan

Summerland by Michael Chabon is a cute story with lots of baseball trivia and baseball as a metaphor for meeting the challenges of life. It is a YA story, but it is still enjoyable for adults, but not a very deep story. It holds a special charm for Pittsburghers with all the references to the Hom...

from DCArchitect

An intriguing mix of Beowolf, Native American lore and baseball, "Summerland" is the coming-of-age story of Ethan Feld. Many of the standard elements of this type of story are found in "Summerland" including a difficult past for Ethan as well as a search for acceptance by his father. Other charac...

from figre

It wasn't until I picked up this book to start reading it that I caught an important point from the back cover - "Hyperion - Paperbacks for Children" and the quote from the Today Show "A home run of a kids' story". Alas, in my haste to pick up another book by Chabon, I had grabbed this novel for ...

from lscottke

A real weaving of Norse and American Northwest Indian mythology. Ethan Feld is a motherless 11-year old who shows no talent for baseball and wants to quit the team, until he is unexpectedly (and erroneously) called upon to save the Universe. Together with his friends and teammates Jennifer T. and...

from Crypto-Willobie

I can see how this would work as a kids' book but it worked for me as a slightly whimsical adult book. As it happens I read it not long after I read [American Gods] and I was surprised by the resonances I found between the two works. Four point eight seven stars!