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Sliding into Home

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By Dori Hillestad Butler
Publisher Peachtree Publishers
Sliding into Home
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An adolescent girl learns that realizing a dream requires a good deal more than stubborn, steely resolve as she risks everything to follow her heart. Its not fair! Thirteenyearold Joelle Cunningham is passionate about baseball. She loves to watch it, read about it, and, most of all, play it. But when her family moves from Minneapolis to the small town of Greendale, Iowa, she quickly discovers that there are strict rules preventing her from playing on the school baseball team. At Hoover Middle School, only boys play baseball. Girls play softball. Its not the same sport! Joelle tries to tell everyone. But no one is listening. Not Coach Carlyleeven though his baseball team is at the bottom of the league, he doesnt want her on his team. Not Ms. Fenner, the softball coachshe wants Joelle to use her big league swing to benefit the girls team. Not her new friend, Elizabeth, who is growing tired of her complaints. Not even Jason, her older brother, who is too busy at college to be of much help. But Joelle is determined to play baseball. And through some creative problemsolving and surprising alliances she finds a solution to her dilemma that brings the disputing sides together...and baseball to the girls of Greendale. Author Dori Butler has created a highspirited, indomitable character that young girls will admire and root for in this story of frustrated ambition and ultimate triumph.

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49086 words49,086 words
192 pages192 pages
Lexile 580LLexile 580L
Grade 3 to 7Grade 3 to 7
Age 8-12Age 8-12
Published 2003Published 2003

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9781561452224

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