Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings (with audio recording)
- ISBN-10
- 1442484551
- ISBN-13
- 9781442484559
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction
- Pages
- 40
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-06-11
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Deborah Hopkinson
Description
Inspired by the life of pioneering female baseball player Alta Weiss, and dramatized by Terry Widener’s bold illustrations, Girl Wonder tells the unforgettable story of a true American original. Alta Weiss was born to play baseball, simple as that. From the age of two, when she hurls a corncob at a pesky tomcat, folks in her small Ohio town know one thing for sure: She may be a girl, but she’s got some arm. When she’s seventeen, Alta hears about a semipro team, the Independents. Here’s her big chance! But one look at Alta’s long skirts tells Coach all he needs to know—girls can’t play baseball! But faster than you can say “strike out,” Alta proves him wrong: Girls can play baseball!
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