The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
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
subjects: baseball, pitchers (baseball), sex role [X], grief, mothers and daughters [X], buffalo (n.y.), mother-daughter relationship, gender role, baseball stories, friendship [X]
White Sands, Red Menace
When Dewey Kerrigan moves to a new home near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family, she shares secrets with her "sister" Suze, adjusts to high school, and faces her long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: mothers and daughters [X], coming of age, historical fiction, white sands missile range (n.m.), sex role [X], scientists, friendship [X], new mexico