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You Throw Like a Girl

English · Paperback / Softback

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Twelve-year-old Gabby's plan to have the best summer ever is dashed when her dad is deployed overseas and her mom moves the family to stay with Gabby's grandmother. Her efforts of making the best of the situation are complicated when she mistakenly signs up for the local Miss Popcorn pageant instead of the girls' softball team.

About the author

One of Rachele Alpine's first jobs was at a library, but it didn't last long, because all she did was hide in the third-floor stacks and read. Now she's a little more careful about when and where she indulges her reading habit. Rachele is a high school English teacher by day, a wife and mother by night, and a writer during any time she can find in between. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she writes middle grade and young adult novels. Visit her at RacheleAlpine.com.

Summary

Miss Congeniality meets She’s the Man in this hilarious M!X novel about a girl torn between competing in a beauty pageant and playing on the boy’s baseball team.

Gabby’s summer vacation isn’t shaping up to be that great. Her dad was just deployed overseas, and Gabby is staying at her grandmother’s house with her mom and baby sister until he returns.

The one bright spot is that Gaby plans to sign up for the local softball league—her greatest love and a passion she shares with her Dad who was a pitcher in college. But when Gabby goes to sign up for the summer league, she discovers that there wasn’t enough interest to justify a girl’s team this year. And to top it off, a horrible miscommunication ends with Gabby signed up to participate in the Miss Popcorn Festival—the annual pageant that Gabby’s mom dominated when she was younger.

Besides not having any interest in the pageant life, Gabby made a promise to her dad that she would play softball for the summer. Since her pitching skills rival any boy her age, Gabby creates a master plan: disguise herself as a boy and sign up for the boy’s baseball team instead—and try to win the pageant to make Mom happy. Can Gabby juggle perfecting her pageant walk and perfecting her fastball? Or will this plan strike out?

Product details

Authors Rachele Alpine, Rachele Alpine
Publisher Harper Collins
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation ages 9 to 13
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 28.02.2017
 
EAN 9781481459846
ISBN 978-1-4814-5984-6
No. of pages 272
Dimensions 130 mm x 191 mm x 20 mm
Weight 181 g
Series mix
mix
Subjects Children's and young people's books

JUVENILE FICTION / Sports & Recreation / General, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics, Sporting stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / General

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