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Sliding into Home (Peachtree Junior Publication)

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Of the several books I read by Ms. Butler this is certainly the best! Even though the book centers on a girl trying to cut through red tape and prejudice to get the chance to play baseball, it really addresses many of life's most important and deepest values.

It's about honesty, friendship, loyalty, courage and self awareness. I found the plot quite interesting with enough twists and turns to keep me constantly guessing. Excellent character development is an intregal part of the story's success.

I'm sure a girl (and surprise, also a boy), would find this book an enjoyable, fun read that's filled with lessons about some of life's most important values.

As I understand it, this book has it's basis in a real life story.

This book is Great! You will never read another book like this!If you decide to buy it you will never regret it. It is very insperation to all irls. This book is for all girls who all willing to fight for somthing. I highly recomend this book who has ever had to fight for somthing, and to all girls that love baseball.It will be suprising and exiting and at sometimes sad.

This may be a work of fiction but the situation is very real. Girls all over the country are facing this same problem all of the time. But there ARE places where they can play and Dori Butler introduces you to some of them. The leagues she talks about DO exist. The websites she mentions ARE real. A must read for any girl who has played or wants to play in a boys league or, better yet, start their own!

This is a great book about a girl named Joelle Cunnigham. At the beginning of the book Joelle Cunnigham moved to a new town and state. She moved from Minneapolis to a town called Glendale, Iowa. Her brother Jason and her are very close and he is in college back in Minnesota. He plays college baseball and she is expected to be just like him. It isnt easy to be like him because he is the starting 1st basemen on the team. When she moves to Glendale she finds out that she is not allowed to play baseball. Girls in Glendale had never been allowed to play it in the past. Joelle was highly disgusted with the school board's rule. The school says that girls and boys do not play on the same baseball team and that girls have to play softball so that girls and boys have an equal oppurtunity of sports to play. Joelle wants to play on the Hawks baseball team and she is going to try everything that she possibly can to become a member of it. She goes to the superintendent's office, the school board, and she writes a letter to the local newspaper. She finally gets some feedback some of it is positive and the other is negative. Some of the negative is coming from girls on the softball team because they want her to play on their team. They think that since she won't play on the team that she thinks that she is too good to play on there. That is not the case with Joelle, all she wants to do is play some baseball. A lot of older people really agree with her and try to help her out. The coach of the Hawks and the school board still wouldn't change their minds about the rule. Joelle then meets a new best friend named Elizabeth. Joelle goes to the park one day and meets a couple of other girls that like baseball but aren't allowed to. They decide try to start a GIRLS ONLY baseball league together. They first have to hold a meeting to get the town aware about the baseball league for the girls. Afew surrounding towns eventually find out about it and decide to join the league. They at first get ready and go to a field to have their first game but the police came and said that they couldnt use the park. They decide to reschedule and an elderly woman allows them to use a lot beside her house. The Hawks ask her to play and she denys their proposal. Everybody comes to the game and it is all over the news girls everywhere in
Iowa see Joelle and the other girls that helped start the league as big role-models now. No one would ever forget what Joelle Cunningham did to change girl's baseball in Glendale, Iowa.

This book would have to go into my top 5 list for my life. She did a great job of leaving you into suspence and I hardly put the book down. I would stay up until 10 or 11 reading and then my eyes would just close. I really wanted to finish. Dori made this book have a great ending. I think that she should write a second novel telling how the baseball team did and if the girls did well or if any other girls joined the team. I loved the book. It is hard for me to find a good book that I have to finish but this one didn't take me long to finish if you look at the time I have to read because I do play all sports. Thank you Dori for writing such an awsome book. Loved IT.

This was an enteresting book about a girl trying to play baseball. Joelle Cunningham has just moved to a new town, Greendale, Iowa. At her new school, Hover Middle School, she can only play softball and not baseball. At hoover girls only play softball. Joelle only wants to play baseball. She tries to make the school change their policy, but they won't. She starts writing letters to the paper all about how they are not the same sport. She was so happy when she met another bunch of girls who also want to play baseball. Then Joelle had a great idea she wanted to start her own girls baseball league. Once they finally get enough people to play the police tell her she can't play on the field she wanted to. S she talks to an old woman who will let them use her properity. They finally get to play their first game and they one.