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Out of Left Field: Marlee's Story

by Barbara L. Clanton

First love, softball, and self-discovery

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First love, softball, and self-discovery

Softball gives Marlee McAllister a familiar focus as she recognizes that her feelings for rival-team outfielder Susie Torres are more than friendship. With the season opener approaching, the demands of pitching and keeping up with school intersect with the challenge of hiding this discovery from her best friend, Jeri. The story connects a young athlete’s first romance with questions of identity and the realities Marlee faces as a gay teen, placing those personal changes alongside the pressures of competition.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in LGBTQ+ fiction centered on a lesbian protagonist.
  • Readers who enjoy stories combining first love with school and team-sport pressures.
  • Softball fans interested in fiction about a young pitcher balancing competition and personal change.

Themes

First loveLesbian identity and self-discoveryFriendship and secretsSoftball and competitionSchool pressures

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Book overview

Marlee's world is turned upside down from literally out of left field.

 

Marlee McAllister, a pitcher for the Clarksonville Cougars softball team, lives and breathes the game. With the season opener approaching, she and her best friend, Jeri D'Amico, go to scout their rivals, the East Valley Panthers. They're there to scout the Panthers' star pitcher, Christy Loveland, but Marlee can't take her eyes off of left fielder Susie Torres.

 

Marlee figures out her attraction to Susie is more than a growing friendship. Susie kissing her helps . . . a lot. Between struggling to maintain her grades, keeping secrets from her best friend, and the emotional roller coaster ride that comes with first love, Marlee still has to pitch to win. On top of it all she has to confront the bittersweet realities of what it means to be gay.

 

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