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A young girl's grandmother tells her of her love for baseball and the day they let her play in the game even though she was a girl.

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Main Author: Johnson, Angela, 1961-
Other Authors: Peck, Beth (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2004.
Subjects:
Gibson, Josh, > 1911-1947 > Juvenile fiction.
Baseball > Juvenile fiction.
Sex role > Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:A young girl's grandmother tells her of her love for baseball and the day they let her play in the game even though she was a girl.
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
ISBN:0689826281
Author Notes:Angela Johnson was born on June 18, 1961 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She attended Kent State University and worked with Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) as a child development worker. She has written numerous children's books including Tell Me a Story, Mama, Shoes like Miss Alice, Looking for Red, A Cool Moonlight and Lily Brown's Paintings. She won the Coretta Scott King Author's Award three times for Toning the Sweep in 1994, for Heaven in 1999, and for The First Part Last in 2004, which also won the Michael L. Printz Award. In 2003, she was named a MacArthur fellow.

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