Bat 6 - Softcover
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
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Bat 6 - that's the softball game played every year between the sixth-grade girls of Barlow and Bear Creek Ridge. All the girls - Beautiful Hair Hallie, Manzanita who gets the spirit, the twins Lola and Lila, Tootie, Shadean - they've been waiting for their turn at Bat 6 since they could first toss a ball.
This time there's a newcomer on each team: Aki, at first base for the Ridgers, who just returned with her family from a place she's too embarrassed to talk about. And Shazam, center field for Barlow, who's been shunted around by her mother since her father was killed on December 7, 1941.
The adults of the two towns would rather not speak about why Aki's family had to "go away." They can't quite admit just how "different" Shazam is. And that is why the two girls are on a collision course that explodes catastrophically on the morning of Bat 6, the day they've been preparing for all their lives.
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Bat 6 - that's the softball game played every year between the sixth-grade girls of Barlow and Bear Creek Ridge. All the girls - Beautiful Hair Hallie, Manzanita who gets the spirit, the twins Lola and Lila, Tootie, Shadean - they've been waiting for their turn at Bat 6 since they could first toss a ball.
This time there's a newcomer on each team: Aki, at first base for the Ridgers, who just returned with her family from a place she's too embarrassed to talk about. And Shazam, center field for Barlow, who's been shunted around by her mother since her father was killed on December 7, 1941.
The adults of the two towns would rather not speak about why Aki's family had to "go away." They can't quite admit just how "different" Shazam is. And that is why the two girls are on a collision course that explodes catastrophically on the morning of Bat 6, the day they've been preparing for all their lives.
Virginia Euwer Wolff is the author of books which have been named ALA/YASD Best Books and School Library Journal's Best Books, in addition to other awards.
"Our daily news is filled with children doing horrifying things," says Ms. Wolff, "and I'm fascinated by the question: What is it we notice about these kids but decide not to acknowledge?"
Ms. Wolff was born and raised in Oregon, Virginia. She currently lives in a house in the woods of Oregon City.
"Our daily news is filled with children doing horrifying things," says Ms. Wolff, "and I'm fascinated by the question: What is it we notice about these kids but decide not to acknowledge?"
Ms. Wolff was born and raised in Oregon, Virginia. She currently lives in a house in the woods of Oregon City.
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- PublisherScholastic Signature
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0807282227
- ISBN 13 9780807282229
- BindingPaperback
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