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Fast Pitch

by Nic Stone Publisher: YEARLING

A team, a family mystery, and a captain under pressure

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    Nic Stone: #1 New York Times bestselling author

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A team, a family mystery, and a captain under pressure

Shenice Lockwood is leading the Fulton Firebirds toward a regional fast-pitch softball championship while confronting challenges that reach beyond the field. The team faces the burden of having to prove that Black girls belong in the sport, and Shenice’s great-uncle’s revelation about a possibly staged crime puts her family history in question. As these pressures disrupt her concentration and test her standing as captain, the story connects team competition with questions of identity, trust, and the past. Softball provides the framework for a coming-of-age story in which Shenice’s responsibilities to her teammates and her family collide.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Ages 9–12 interested in softball and team competition
  • Readers who enjoy coming-of-age stories involving family secrets
  • Readers interested in stories about Black girls in sports

Themes

Softball and teamworkBlack girls’ representation in sportsFamily history and secretsLeadership and responsibility

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Book overview

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the field.

Shenice Lockwood, captain of the Fulton Firebirds, is hyper-focused when she steps up to the plate. Nothing can stop her from leading her team to the U12 fast-pitch softball regional championship. But life has thrown some curveballs her way.

Strike one: As the sole team of all-brown faces, Shenice and the Firebirds have to work twice as hard to prove that Black girls belong at bat.

Strike two: 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.

Strike three: Broken focus means mistakes on the field. And Shenice's teammates are beginning to wonder if she's captain-qualified.

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.

"Sports, suspense, mystery, history... What more could you want? A funny, charming page-turner." -Adam Gidwitz, New York Times bestselling author
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