The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz

The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz is the story of nine different generations of the same family.  Each person's story is organized in three chapters, so it's almost like a book of short stories.  All of the nine are tied together somehow by baseball.  The first inning begins in 1845 with a young immigrant from German, working to earn enough money to bring the rest of his family to America.  The ninth inning takes place in 2002, and features a boy who is working to learn what he can about each item in a box of old baseball artifacts, not knowing that each item had, at one point in history, belonged to each of the previous generations in his family.

This was a really cool book.  I'm not a big baseball fan, but that didn't matter at all.  Each of the nine stories was independent of the others, yet all were tied together in some way.  I loved the organization of the book and the author's note at the end explaining the true historical moments on which each of the nine stories was based.