From School Library Journal
Grade 6-8–Through a compelling, caustic, first-person narration, Lindy Perkins shares her pain, guilt, and shame as her family tries to recover from the accidental death of her infant sister. She has other secrets to hide from her schoolmates in her new town: her run-down house is in a neighborhood of new, expensive homes; the months her family lived in a homeless shelter; and her bereft father is ridiculed by the community for scavenging materials for his bizarre sculptures. Lindy lives for softball, and she has tremendous talent, yet even that is threatened when she avoids homework, copies a friend's math assignments, forges her parents' signatures, shoots paper clips at those who sit in front of her, and beans a teammate who makes an insulting comment at practice. Perhaps it is Lindy's sharp comments, wry wit, or athletic prowess that prompt two of her classmates to befriend her–it certainly isn't her efforts to reach out to them. Readers will appreciate the wonderful softball descriptions and infusions of suspense and humor, and may not mind the forced, tidy ending in this story of tragedy and family dysfunction.–Laura Scott, Farmington Community Library, MI
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