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Loading... Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Inningsby Deborah Hopkinson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 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. ( ) 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. 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 no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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