This one's got it all: love, baseball, teenagers, up-to-date epistolatory modes, even some alternative lifestyles and political activism. Kluger's characters--while a scosh too intelligent and articulate to be believable ninth (or 11th) graders--are witty, vulnerable, courageous, and human. The format isn't new, but the flipping among personal journals, IMs, cell phone calls, emails, and ASL is enough to keep the reader engaged through any plotline or conversation, even the more predictable or less believable variety. Basically, I laughed, I snickered, I got a little misty, and I pulled for the characters to work their ways through the convolutions of adolescence ahead of them. It's hard not to love TC, Ale', Augie, Hucky, and their attendant adults, even when they're all a bit too talented and lucky to be from my block. A great springtime, baseball-season-prep read for anyone who likes happy endings with some witty repartee on the way.