Fast Pitch by Nic Stone. 192 p. Crown Books for Young Readers/ Random House Children's Books, August 31, 2021. 9781984893017.
Happy Wednesday TMS Readers! Waiting on Wednesday features Fast Pitch by Nic Stone. Ms. Stone's YA books are quite popular at TMS and recently, she made her MG debut with Clean Getaway. In just a few weeks, Fast Pitch will be released! Look for it in book stores and libraries on August 31. Here's the publisher synopsis:
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.
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