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Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings
Contributor(s): Hopkinson, Deborah (Author), Widener, Terry (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 1416913939 ISBN-13: 9781416913931
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2006
Annotation: When Alta Weiss throws a corncob at a tomcat chasing her favorite hen, folks know one thing for sure: She may be a girl, but she's got some arm. This is the exciting story of the pioneering female baseball player--a true American original. Full color.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation - Baseball
- Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women
- Juvenile Fiction | Biographical - General

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 990047052

Age Level: 5-8

Grade Level: Kindergarten-3

Lexile Measure: 570(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.4" H x 7.8" W x 10.7" L (0.40 lbs) 40 pages

Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Geographic Orientation - Ohio

Features: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/10/2006 pg. 75

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 66891
Reading Level: 3.0 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5

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Publisher Description:
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

Contributor Bio(s): Hopkinson, Deborah: - Deborah Hopkinson is the author of numerous award-winning children's books, including Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, winner of the International Reading 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 for the Night. She lives in Oregon. Visit her onlinw at DeborahHopkinson.com.Widener, Terry: - 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.

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