Girl Wonder A Baseball Story
Language: English
Published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Girl Wonder A Baseball Story
- Author
- Hopkinson, Deborah
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0689833008
- ISBN 13
- 9780689833007
- Illustrator
- Widener, Terry
the story
of the
Girl Wonder?
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!
Faster than you can say "strike out!," Alta's convinced him to give her a chance. And so with the crowd buzzing and the big game up to her, Alta steps up to the pitcher's mound, determined to prove everybody wrong.
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.
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About the Author
Terry Widener is an award-winning illustrator whose picture books include Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man (a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book) and The Babe & I (a recipient of the California Young Reader Medal), both by David A. Adler, and Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings (a Junior Library Guild Selection) by Deborah Hopkinson. Mr. Widener lives with his family in McKinney, Texas.
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