Full name: Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings

Author: Deborah Hopkinson Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781416913931 1416913939

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! Similar books: Mudball by Matt Tavares Fifty-Nine in '84 by Edward Achorn The Streak by Barb Rosenstock A Pitcher's Story by Roger Angell Opening Day by Jonathan Eig Mighty Jackie by Marissa Moss Dirt on Their Skirts by Doreen Rappaport No Easy Way by Fred Bowen Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy by Phil Bildner The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence S. Ritter Crazy '08 by Cait Murphy Queen of the Diamond by Emily Arnold McCully 56 by Kostya Kennedy Stan Musial by George Vecsey Steamboat School by Deborah Hopkinson Saving Strawberry Farm by Deborah Hopkinson Sky Boys by Deborah Hopkinson A Packet of Seeds by Deborah Hopkinson Birdie's Lighthouse by Deborah Hopkinson