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Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings

Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings - Paperback

by Deborah Hopkinson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Deborah Hopkinson, Terry Widener (Illustrator)Audience:Ages 4-8Publish date:2006-02-01Pages:40
Language:EnglishPublisher:Aladdin PaperbacksISBN-13:9781416913931ISBN-10:1416913939UPC:9781416913931Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Sports & Recreation, Girls & Women, BiographicalBook Topic:Baseball & SoftballSize:10.70 x 7.80 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCT7Q2X8QX
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
Language:EnglishPublisher:Aladdin PaperbacksISBN-13:9781416913931ISBN-10:1416913939UPC:9781416913931Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Sports & Recreation, Girls & Women, BiographicalBook Topic:Baseball & SoftballSize:10.70 x 7.80 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCT7Q2X8QX
Deborah Hopkinson is the author of numerous award-winning children's books, including Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, winner of the International Literacy Association Award; Girl Wonder, winner of the Great Lakes Book Award; and Apples to Oregon, a Junior Library Guild Selection. She received the 2003 Washington State Book Award for Under the Quilt of Night. She lives in Oregon. Visit her online at DeborahHopkinson.com.

Terry Widener is an award-winning illustrator whose picture books include Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man by David A. Adler, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book, and America's Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle, also by David A. Adler, a Junior Library Guild Selection. He is also the illustrator of Peg and the Whale by Kenneth Oppel and If the Shoe Fit by Gary Soto. Mr. Widener lives with his wife and three children in McKinney, Texas.
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks

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