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Klages, Ellen
3 Reviews
(3)
4-6
It's 1957, and talented pitcher Katy Gordon isn't eligible to play Little League baseball because she's a girl. Frustrated, she sets off to fight the rule and discovers the stories of a dozen (real-life) women baseball pioneers. Katy's persistence is admirable in this light story of resistance. Appended with additional information on the inspiring women ("Meet Katy's Twelve Ballplayers") and an author's note. Reading list, websites. Glos.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano
(2)
4-6
Dewey and the Gordons (The Green Glass Sea) move to Alamogordo where Mr. Gordon is working on the V-2 rocket. Suze tries to negotiate her parents' increasingly strained marriage while Dewey finds out that her long-gone mother is looking for her. Klages again sets her odd-duck girls within a story richly but effortlessly informed by details of era and landscape.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
September, 2008
(1)
4-6
In 1943, ten-year-old Dewey's dad is working at Los Alamos with hundreds of other scientists and their families. Klages evokes both the big-sky landscape of the Southwest and a community where "everything is secret," focusing on the society of the children who live there. History and story are drawn together with confidence in this intense but accessible page-turner.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2006
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