Interest Level
Grades 6 - 8
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 4.8
Lexile Measure®: 930L
DRA: Not Available
Guided Reading: Z
Type of Book: Chapter Book
Genre
- Historical Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Japanese and Japanese American
- World War II
- Pride and Self-Esteem
- Tolerance and Acceptance
- Prejudice and Tolerance Experiences
- Softball
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About This Book
Bat 6. That's the softball game played every year between the sixth-grade girls of Barlow and Bear Creek Ridge. All the girls — Beautiful Hair Hallie, Manzanita, the twins Lola and Lila, Tootie, Shadean — have been waiting for their turn at Bat 6 since they could first toss a ball.This time there's a newcomer on each team: Aki, at first base for the Ridgers, who just returned with her family from a place she's too embarrassed to talk about. And Shazam, center field for Barlow, who's been shunted around by her mother since her father was killed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
The adults of the two towns would rather not speak about why Aki's family had to "go away." They can't quite admit just how "different" Shazam is. And that is why the two girls are on a collision course that explodes catastrophically on the morning of Bat 6, the day they've been preparing for all their lives.
About the Authors or Illustrators
Virginia Euwer Wolff's first book for young readers was published in 1988 and won both the International Reading Association Award and the PEN-West Book Award. Since then she has written several more critically acclaimed young adult novels, earning more honors, including the Golden Kite Award for Fiction and the Jane Addams Book Award for Children's Books that Build Peace.
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