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Lorenzi, Natalie Dias

A Long Pitch Home

248 pp. | Charlesbridge | September, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-1-58089-713-6 $16.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-60734-871-9
(3) 4-6 Ten-year-old Bilal struggles to fit in after he immigrates from Pakistan to Virginia. Bilal also longs for his father--trapped in Pakistan by a legal dilemma--to join them. Writing in the first person, Lorenzi empathetically conveys Bilal's confusions over language, the dissimilarities between cricket and baseball, and the misogyny of his teammates toward their only girl teammate.
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

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