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Players In Pigtails

author: Corey, Shana
Katie Casey was baseball mad. Had the fever and had it bad. A story that celebrates a brave girl's love of the game as she works to become a player in the first-ever All-American Girls Professional Baseball league.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 69
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 350
subjects: baseball [X], sex role [X], historical fiction

The Boonsville Bombers

author: Herzig, Alison Cragin
When her older brother and his friends won't let her play on their baseball team, Emma comes up with a plan to convince them to change their minds.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 460
subjects: baseball [X], sex role [X], brothers and sisters

Mickey & Me

author: Gutman, Dan
When Joe travels back to 1944, he meets the Milwaukee Chicks, one of the only all-female professional baseball teams in the history of the game.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 86
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: baseball [X], baseball cards, sex role [X], time travel, milwaukee (wis.)

The Girl Who Threw Butterflies

author: Cochrane, Mick
Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps in other aspects of her life, as well.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 52
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750

No Cream Puffs

author: Day, Karen
In 1980, when twelve-year-old Madison, who loves to play baseball, decides to play in her town's baseball league, she never envisions the uproar it causes when she becomes the first girl to join.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: baseball [X], sex role [X], friendship, michigan

Top Of The Order

author: Coy, John
Ten-year-old Jackson lives for baseball, but becomes distracted by the approach of middle school, his mother's latest boyfriend, and the presence of a girl--his good friend's sister--on his team.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: baseball [X], friendship, schools, sex role [X], divorce

Sliding Into Home

author: Butler, Dori Hillestad
When thirteen-year-old Joelle, a star baseball player, moves to a new town where the only option for girls is softball, she starts an all-girl baseball league against the wishes of her school coaches and others in the town.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
subjects: baseball [X], sex role [X], schools, moving, household

Some Kind Of Pride

author: Testa, Maria
Eleven-year-old Ruth, named after one of the greatest baseball players of all time, begins to question her dream of becoming a major league player after she overhears her father lamenting the fact that her talent is being wasted on a girl.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: baseball [X], sex role [X], maine, baseball stories

A Different Season

author: Klass, David
High school baseball star Jim Roark is delighted to meet Jennifer Douglas, the second basewoman on the girls' softball team, until she becomes the first female player on his all-male team.
FIC
year: 1988
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: baseball [X], sex role [X]

Baseball Ballerina

author: Cristaldi, Kathryn
She plays shortstop for the Sharks. So what is she doing taking ballet lessons? And what if her team finds out? You'll love this funny story about baseball, ballet, and best friends.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 46
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 270
subjects: ballet, sex role [X], baseball [X], ballet dancing, gender role

My 13th Season

author: Roberts, Kristi
Already downhearted due to the loss of her mother and her father's overwhelming grief, thirteen-year-old Fran decides to give up her dream of becoming the first female in professional baseball after a coach attacks her just for being a girl.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730

Just Like Josh Gibson

author: Johnson, Angela
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.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: sex role [X], baseball [X], grandmothers, african americans

Never So Green

author: Johnston, Tim
In Iowa in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Tex overcomes his self-consciousness about his deformed right hand to take baseball lessons from his stepfather and his tomboy stepsister, who harbors a dark secret.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

Left Out

author: Holohan, Maureen
Rosie Jones, one of the best eleven-year-old baseball players in the city thinks she has it made when she is named to the all-star team, but she quickly learns that not everyone is ready to accept the fact that girls have a right to play the game.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: baseball [X], sex role [X], family life

Rosie In Chicago

author: Matas, Carol
Unable to make friends at her new school, Rosie learns that one of Chicago's baseball teams has lost its top player and disguises herself as a boy to take his place.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: baseball [X], jews, sex role [X], historical fiction, chicago (ill.)

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