Girl Wonder

A Baseball Story in Nine Innings (with audio recording)

Kids, Fiction, Historical, Teen, Fiction - YA
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Author: Deborah Hopkinson ISBN: 9781442484559
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers Publication: June 11, 2013
Imprint: Atheneum Books for Young Readers Language: English
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
ISBN: 9781442484559
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication: June 11, 2013
Imprint: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Language: English

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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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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