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| Genre/Form: | Fiction Juvenile fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Virginia Euwer Wolff |
| ISBN: | 0590897993 9780590897990 |
| OCLC Number: | 36892714 |
| Description: | 229 p. : 22 cm. |
| Other Titles: | Bat six |
| Responsibility: | Virginia Euwer Wolff. |
Abstract:
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one sixth-grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface. Set in a small Oregon town just after World War II, this is the powerful tale of a community shattered by its reaction to two young newcomers, Aki and Shazam. Told from 21 different points of view, "Bat 6" explores the subject of Japanese-American racial prejudice after the war. A Japanese American girl who has just spent 6 years in an internment camp meets a bitter girl whose father was killed in Pearl Harbor, and the two become rivals in baseball in this story narrated by the members of the opposing teams.
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