Sliding into home

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Sex role,  Household Moving,  Schools,  Baseball,  Small town life,  Thirteen-year-old girls,  Persistence in girls,  Baseball stories,  Sports,  Girl baseball players,  Self-reliance in teenage girls,  Risk-taking in teenagers,  Juvenile fiction,  Determination in teenage girls,  New students,  Softball,  Assertiveness in teenage girls,  Children's fiction,  Baseball, fiction,  Sex role, fiction,  Schools, fiction,  Moving, household, fiction