Lucky Lou Gets Game - Softcover

Sarah Yates

Softcover

ISBN 10: 096964776X ISBN 13: 9780969647768

Publisher: Gemma B. Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Lucky Lou Gets Game, a young adult novel from author Sarah Yates is a coming-of-age story that is both inspirational and down-to-earth funny. Yates pushes the limits of her unusual heroine Lous abilities.

Seventeen-year old Lou Starr has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair but she is a bold and self-effacing heroine. Her cousin Sam refuses to take her disability as an excuse for her not playing baseball. He and a group of friends help Lou, her wildly outspoken friend Libby and a motley team of others learn to play the game. But the undertaking has unexpected consequences. As commentator, back catcher and leader in a community project, Lou gets game and gets the boy she sets her heart on!

Lucky Lou Gets Game, a first cut in the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (2010), is Sarah Yates fourth book featuring a one-of-a-kind heroine.

About this title

About the Author:

In 1992, Yates formed Gemma B. Publishing to create fictional role models for children who cannot run, jump and shout aloud. Can t You be Still? (1992); Nobody Knows! (1994) and Here s What I Mean to Say... (1997) have become classics in their field. Written in the first person, they feature a girl with cerebral palsy who cannot walk without a walker or a wheelchair, who cannot talk with ease but who tackles the world in a fiery forthright manner. She is a winner by doing what she can.

The trilogy of books, enjoyed by readers at home and in schools, are sold throughout the US, in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, England, Germany and elsewhere in bookstores, through Amazon Books and via the company website at gemmab.ca

Yates other credits include two books Manitoba and Alberta from Lerner Publications in Minneapolis, both republished by Fitzhenry & Whiteside. F & W also published Toronto Then and Now (1984), Yates first co-authorship.

An accomplished puppeteer, Yates has performed shows based on her first three childrens books in New York, Chicago, Toronto and across Canada.

Review:

Submitted by one of our readers - a teen with cerebral palsy: Lucky Lou, what a woman! She didnt let anyone get in her way. As a teen she struggled with life issues and having cerebral palsy, believe me, I would know. Being a teenager with cerebral palsy, at times I felt I could be Lou. I found many very similar issues that both she and I deal with on regular basis. Though I am not in a tricked out chair, we do share some things. Being opinionated, stubborn and determined are some of these. This book is one that teen readers (especially disabled ones) can connect with. The struggles are real the emotion is real. Anyone who reads this book will have a connection with at least one of the characters. Love, frustration and achievement, and victory it all in the book. Independence is one of the things the disabled fight and strive for most; its one of the most precious things someone can attain. I mean hey what teen do you know that doesnt want some kind of independence? Lou inspires readers to be brave get out there, who cares what people think. No excuses, fight for what you believe. Grab it and roll! This book was well written and well thought out in my eyes. Its true and an accurate depiction of what ones life could be like if they had cerebral palsy. The print is awesome, clear and big enough to read. Anyone could tell the readers were considered. Some of the words were different, that was good because the same meaning comes through in a different way. Disabilities take up a lot of peoples time and effort, so the mixing of fun with real life, in your face politics was great. Thats real life. This book deserves the awesome award! It was a very good read! --A teen reader with cerebral palsy

About this edition

• Publisher: Gemma B. Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 096964776X
• ISBN 13: 9780969647768
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: David Margoshes
• Illustrator: Gwendolyn Penner And Gemma Yates-Howorth