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Author
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The first softball game was played in 1887, and while it didnt even include a ball, this sport has been gaining in popularity ever since. This instructive book teaches readers the basics of the fast-pitch game, including the differences between it and slow-pitch ball. Readers will learn all about rules, equipment, field positions, and more. Handy tips will help players play their best game. Featured players in fast-pitch offer insights for anyone,...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains the basic rules of softball, discusses such benefits of playing the game as developing confidence and learning the value of teamwork, and includes stories of famous softball players and successful teams.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's not simply that Dot Wilkinson was one of the most decorated women's softball players, bowlers, and athletes of all time and one of the original players from the three-time-world-champion PBSW Phoenix Ramblers softball team (1933-1965). Nor was it the length of her time here on Earth--over a century--although any of these things by itself would be impressive. The magic of Dot's story is in the details. It's the tale of a childhood spent in poverty,...
5) Heroine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time to...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
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.
7) Fast pitch
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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
Series
Critter Club volume 18
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
When Ellie joins a softball team, she quickly realizes that the sport is harder than it looks! Is she meant only for the stage, not the field? And what happens when Ellie goes searching in the woods near the field for a stray ball and finds an injured baby deer?!
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A rousing and empowering story of dedication and overcoming all odds, featuring the tough and unforgettable athletes of the champion Lady Tigers softball team. Violence was a way of life for the girls of Mott Middle School in the South Bronx. Some woke up to it at home, and others dodged it on the way to school. Vicious physical fights broke out in classrooms, hallways, and bathrooms. These girls filed their fingernails into sharp points because...
10) How do you know
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Penny Farrell, captain and third baseman of the Hawks softball team, tries to uncover the reason for the strange behavior of two teammates who have also suddenly turned into super athletes.
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned. On day one at PICA, Molly discovers that--through some horrible twist of fate--her full-ride scholarship has vanished! But the ancient texts (PICA's dusty financial aid documents) reveal a loophole. If Molly and 9 other art students win a single game of softball, they'll receive a massive athletic scholarship. Can Molly's crew of ragtag artists succeed...
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 33
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
Unable to fit in with the other kids at summer sports camp, Wendy, a nonathletic type, cannot understand what all the hype is over a little game of softball, but she is about to learn the origins of everyone's obsessive competitive streak.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
When she sees how much her little brother and young stepbrother and stepsister want to play softball, thirteen-year-old Kristy starts her own team, which makes up in spirit what it lacks in skill.
They're lean, mean, they're the pride of Stoneybrook. Who are they? They're Kristy's Krushers! When Kristy sees how much her little brothers and sister want to play on a softball team, she starts a rag-tag team of her own. Maybe Kristy's Krushers aren't...
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
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
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Sammy finds herself with an abandoned baby on her hands, she sets out to find the young mother, who may belong to a gang, and accidentally jeopardizes her position on the softball team.
"I should have known better..." Sammy Keyes says this a lot. But when she sees something suspicious or meets someone in trouble, she just can't help herself. She has to act. So, okay, the police have had to intervene on a couple occasions,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a softball tournament against a bitter rival.
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