Roberto+and+Me

__ Roberto and Me __
= by Dan Gutman = =﻿ Nominated by Max =  I read a great book called __Roberto and Me__ by Dan Gutman. The genre of this book is science fiction. In Dan Gutman’s best book, the main character of the book, Joe, has been on many time travel trips with baseball cards. On December 31st 1972 Roberto Clemente, a Hall of Fame outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, died while trying to save earthquake victims from Nicaragua. He died on a cargo plane with 4000 pounds of medicine and other aids to help them survive. The plane was airborne for 2 minutes, and then crashed into the ocean. When Joe hears about what happened to Roberto, he decides to travel back to 1972 to convince Roberto not to get on the plane. The other main characters in the book are Roberto Clemente (of course), Sunrise, Joe’s Spanish teacher Senorita Molina, and Joe’s great grandson Bernard. Once Joe is in Roberto’s time he has to find Roberto because he ends up in New York at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. He has experienced that in his past trips. He meets a hippy girl named Sunrise at the concert and she helps Joe with his mission. Another problem he faces is that he’ll have to convince Roberto that he is from the future and that Roberto will die in a plane crash to Nicaragua on New Year’s Eve, 1972. He convinces Sunrise and Roberto that he is from the future by telling them about items we use in the present like HD T.V. s, video games, the Internet and many other common things we use. For more proof Joe brings his portable Nintendo game system. But the mission to save Roberto is just one part. He accidently goes on a trip that completely changes his life. I nominated this book because this book is a really big adventure and I really love books with an adventure. Also because __Roberto and Me__ is part of Dan Gutman’s best series yet. I like the series because; Joe overcomes his problems in a unique way in every book. Another reason I nominated this book is because I really like baseball history books, although this one has less to do with baseball than all his others. The biggest reason I like this book is because Joe learns a big lesson from Bernard about the Earth’s future so he decides to start helping the environment. This reason should also influence YOU to help save the Earth. When Joe was convincing Roberto not to get on the plane he gave Joe a note that said: //if you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth//. Here is the conclusion: Read __Roberto and Me__ by Dan Gutman.

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