| Specifications | 5 1/2" X 8 1/4"; 272 pages |
| Author(s) | Weezie Kerr Mackey |
| List Price | | US$ 7.99 |  | |  |
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About
the
Book
"I
love being on this bus with all these girls who play sports, even if Sally
Fontineau, who wants to ruin my life, is half a bus in front of me. It’s
not like every girl is my best friend. It’s just a thing I feel a part of.
It makes everything different."
No one asks
Ella how she feels about moving halfway across the country in the middle of her
sophomore year. But she ends up in Texas anyway, without plans for the weekend
or friends to guide her through the alien campus of her new private school. So
she decides to try out for the softball team—and she makes it! Now if only
she knew how to throw, hit, and field the ball. "This is the part you
can’t read in a book. You just have to do it." Ella has a lot to
learn—on and off the field.
Softball changes Ella’s life,
for better and for worse. She discovers a confidence she never knew she had and
makes new friends—and enemies. When Ella falls for her snotty
teammate’s gorgeous brother, suddenly she isn’t just fielding balls,
she’s also dodging evil glares from girls in class and on the
team.
If Ella’s going to survive this year, she’ll have to
set some ground rules and learn to stand up for herself—in the game and in
her life.
WEEZIE KERR MACKEY grew up in a suburb of Chicago, where
she began her sports career. Later, while studying English literature at Trinity
College in Connecticut, she continued her athletics, playing field hockey,
squash, and softball. After college, she took a job teaching P.E. and coaching
girls’ field hockey, soccer, and softball at the Greenhill School in
Dallas, which became the inspiration for Ella’s story in
Throwing Like a
Girl,
her first novel. Equipped with an MFA in creative
writing, she now writes, works, and lives in Wilmette, Illinois, with her
husband and their two sons. Visit the author’s Web site:
http://www.weeziekerrmackey.com/
