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Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
If you think softball is just a “women’s version” of the great American pastime of baseball—well, think again. Fastpitch softball is one of the most widely played sports in the world, with tens of millions of active participants in various age groups. But the origins of this beloved sport and the charismatic athletes who helped it achieve prominence in the mid-twentieth century have been largely forgotten, until now. Fastpitch brings to life...
2) The coach's guide to game-winning softball drills: developing the essential skills in every player
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Describes the origins, rules, and positions of women's fast-pitch softball, outlines the skills and training needed for successful play, and discusses the competitive game, including the international and professional levels.
6) MadCat
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fast-pitch softball catcher MadCat Campione's love for the sport--and her relationship with her best friends--is strained when her team competes on a national level. MadCat Campione is the best twelve-year-old catcher in New Hampshire. And this year her fastpitch softball team, the Norwich Sting, is going National. They'll be shooting to make the National Fastpitch Softball World Series, playing against the best teams from around the country. MadCat...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Women's professional softball has spent decades fighting for survival, forcing the best players in the world to choose between their livelihood and their dreams. This is the story of one woman and her team who sacrifice it all and refuse to let those dreams slip away.
As women's pro softball fights for survival, the world's best players must choose: make a living or follow a dream. Burn the Ships is the story of one woman's refusal to let those dreams...
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The pressure is on when Hank Zipzer is chosen as pitcher for the softball team at Public School 87's annual Olympiad, the most anticipated day of the school year.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 18
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After auditioning for a solo part in the youth chorus, Ellie makes her first attempts at playing baseball and finds a baby deer alone in the woods while searching for a stray ball.
11) How do you know
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men and wonders when it comes to love, how do you know?
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As she worries about her mother who is entering a rehab facility for alcoholism, eleven-year-old Veronica struggles with secrets, her favorite sport softball, and what she really wants to do with her life.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Quinn, Montana, population: 956. A town where nearly all of the volunteer firemen are named Jim, where The Dirty Shame--the only bar in town--refuses to serve mixed drinks (too much work), where the locals hate the newcomers (then again, they hate the locals, too), and where the town softball team has never even come close to having a winning season. Until now. Rachel Flood has snuck back into town after leaving behind a trail of chaos...
14) Team players
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A girl with Asperger's joins Cassie's softball team but not everyone on the team welcomes her, creating a rift between Cassie and her teammates"--
15) Fast pitch
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Shenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending-and family-name-ruining-crime may have been a setup. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family's past-and fast-before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As three teenaged sisters struggle to cope with their father's sudden death, they find they must reexamine friendships, lifelong dreams, and their relationships with each other and their father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Gabby's summer vacation isn't shaping up to be that great. Her dad was just deployed overseas, and Gabby is staying at her grandmother's house with her mom and baby sister until he returns. The one bright spot is that Gaby plans to sign up for the local softball league--her greatest love and a passion she shares with her Dad who was a pitcher in college. But when Gabby goes to sign up for the summer league, she discovers that there wasn't enough interest...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''A powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s by the bestselling author of West with Giraffes. In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It’s also where two girls are going to shake things up. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran’s childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who...
20) Bat 6
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.
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