# Don't Throw It to Mo!

**Author:** David A. Adler
**Grade range:** Grades K–2
**First published:** 2015
**Page count:** 36
**ISBN-13:** `9780698136137`
**ISBN-10:** `0698136136`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/dont-throw-it-to-mo
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Winner of the 2016 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Mo is the youngest kid on the Robins, his football team. His classmates don’t mind, but the kids on their rival team tease him for being a "butterfingers" who's too tiny to catch the ball. But Mo's coach has a plan to turn Mo's little size into a big win for the Robins! This Level 2 reader about a little African-American boy with a big passion for sports was the winner of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award in 2016.

## Where this book is assigned

### Theodor Seuss Geisel Award

- **recommended** · Kindergarten grade — [source: Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Geisel Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisel_Award)
- **recommended** · 1st grade — [source: Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Geisel Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisel_Award)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: Theodor Seuss Geisel Award winners (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 Geisel Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisel_Award)

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