Bat 6 / Virginia Euwer Wolff.
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one sixth-grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface. Set in a small Oregon town just after World War II, this is the powerful tale of a community shattered by its reaction to two yo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scholastic Press,
1998.
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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| Summary: | In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one sixth-grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface. Set in a small Oregon town just after World War II, this is the powerful tale of a community shattered by its reaction to two young newcomers, Aki and Shazam. Told from 21 different points of view, "Bat 6" explores the subject of Japanese-American racial prejudice after the war. A Japanese American girl who has just spent 6 years in an internment camp meets a bitter girl whose father was killed in Pearl Harbor, and the two become rivals in baseball in this story narrated by the members of the opposing teams. |
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| Physical Description: | 230 pages ; 22 cm |
| Audience: | Middle School. |
| Awards: | ALA Notable Children's Book, 1999. |
| ISBN: | 0590897993 9780590897990 0329148567 (Follett Bnd) 9780329148560 (Follett Bnd) 0590898000 9780590898003 1435246853 9781435246850 |