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Alpine, Rachele
2 Reviews
(4)
4-6
Brooklyn loves ballet and hates football. Unfortunately, everyone in her new Texas town, including her quarterback stepbrother, are football fanatics. When the middle-school football team is required to take classes at her ballet studio, Brooklyn learns that football and ballet have some similarities after all. Brooklyn's feelings of alienation in her new surroundings are well wrought in this predictable but buoyant middle-school novel.
Reviewer: Mariko Turk
(4)
4-6
With Dad deployed overseas, Gabby's spending the summer in her grandmother's Midwestern town, where most girls compete in the annual beauty pageant. In order to please Mom, a three-time Miss Popcorn, Gabby agrees to train for it. But she really wants to play baseball, so she also pretends to be a boy. This mildly entertaining middle-school read is light on baseball and long on beauty pageantry.
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin
2 reviews
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