The Arkansas Center for the Book is pleased to share our 2026 Great Reads selection for Cope Field written by T.L. Simpson. A teen baseball star who “has it all”—looks, wealth, and a pro-MLB father—grapples with an impossible choice: reveal his abuse at the hands of his father and risk being separated from his younger brother in the foster care system, or remain silent and risk his brother experiencing that same abuse. Cope Field was named a 2026 Printz Honor Book.
T.L. Simpson is a nationally acclaimed novelist and journalist. A longtime newspaper editor in Arkansas, Simpson draws on his experience covering sports, crime, and community life in his fiction.
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