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Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings

by Deborah Hopkinson

Other authors: Terry Widener (Illustrator)

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In the early 1900s, Alta Weiss, a young woman who knows from an early age that she loves baseball, finds a way to show that she can play, even though she is a girl.
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I LOVED this book! It really showed the way gender played roles in sports. The girl was able to overcome the way the men treated her, and she definitely showed them she could do it. ( )
  ogonzales | Sep 3, 2019 |
This is a story about the life of Alta Weiss. She played baseball for an all-male, semiprofessional team in the early 1900s. Alta was one of the first women to play baseball on a men’s team at a time when sports like baseball were thought to be only for men. ( )
  bre201 | Jan 31, 2019 |
Alta was always great at throwing a baseball and grew up being a pitcher, striking out all of the boys in town. She joins a semipro team and pitches in her first game. They win the game and many more, and she is the new star pitcher. She then retires and is a doctor, but she spreads her story with another little girl that she sees. ( )
  allisonmeyer | Feb 28, 2018 |
It was about a girl that wanted to play baseball. She was discriminated and told she could play because she was a girl. The team ended up letting her join and she lead the team to winning a game. After that, she never got accused of being a girl and playing baseball.
  beccaholtz | Feb 20, 2018 |
Summary: This story is about a girl named Alta Weissin the early 1900s, she loves playing baseball when she was a little girl. When she grew up, every told her should give up playing baseball because she is a girl and people told her--girls can't play baseball. However, she insisted her dream and convinced the coach to give her a chance. At the end, she has a big success and be called "Girl Wonder". She has proved herself and everyboby was thought wrong about her.
Genre: Historical fiction
Age app: Primary, intermedinate
Media: acrylic paint ( )
  carolinechen0608 | Apr 10, 2017 |
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