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Bat 6 Paperback – April 1, 2000

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Bat 6an annual softball game between two rivalrous teams of sixthgrade girlsexplodes catastrophically in 1948 because of the prejudice surrounding two new girls who are "different." Reprint.

Reading age

8 - 12 years
Print length

240 pages
Language

English
Grade level

3 - 7
Lexile measure

930L
Dimensions

5 x 0.5 x 7.25 inches
Publisher

Scholastic Paperbacks
Publication date

April 1, 2000
ISBN-10

0590898000
ISBN-13

978-0590898003
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition (April 1, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0590898000
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0590898003
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 12 years
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 930L
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 3 - 7
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.5 x 7.25 inches

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Kimberly Sabatini

A League of Their Own MEETS American Girl

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2022

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Bat 6, a story of two teams of 6th-grade girls who are ready to play their annual softball game, is also a walk back to 1949 and what life was like in a small town recovering from the war and also trying to heal itself from the impact Japanese internment camps had on their community. While this book has moments that make a modern-day reader suck in a breath, we're reminded that history can not and should not be made to be politically correct. A story like this is meant to make us a little uncomfortable, and because this story is brimming with hope, growth, and human kindness, you find yourself rooting for all the girls on the Barlow and Ridge teams--and everyone in the stands.

Bat 6 would make a wonderful television series. With so many characters, there would be an exponential amount of space to bring this--A League of Their Own meets American Girls story to life.

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Beaver Believer

Looked worn and a bit yellowed.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2019

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Had more wear than expected. There were library pockets and cards inside. Gave to my granddaughter anyway as content of book was what I wanted for her to read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 7, 2013

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This was my sons summer reading book.He likes it enough to have several convos with me about it so it must have been pretty good.

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Aftermath of War

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 18, 2007

The year is 1949. In the little towns of Barlow and Bear Creek Ridge, there is a traditional softball game that has been played every year since 1899. The game was started because the men in the two towns were angry at each other and refused to speak. The women in the two towns decided to play a friendly softball game against each other in order to get the men talking to each other again. It worked, and became a tradition. The game in later years came to be played by the sixth grade girls every year, and the girls now always look forward to it. It is an honor and a last opportunity to do something for their towns before seventh grade, when they all go to the same consolidated junior high school.

This book is told by the members of both teams, and tells the story leading up to the Bat 6 game and the things that happen after the game. At first both teams expect it to be a normal year, but each team then gains someone new. On the Bear Creek Ridge team, it is Aki, a girl who used to live in town but had spent years in a Japanese internment camp during the war. On the Barlow team it is Shazam, a strange girl who comes to town without a mother or father, to live with her grandmother. Over the course of the novel her secret comes out, and the reader can see that there might be trouble at the game.

I liked the idea of this book. It is a good story about the aftermath of war, and what happened to families once the war ended. I liked that there is a wide diversity in the characters. There are rich and poor, those whose fathers fought and those whose fathers refused to fight, people who benefited from the GI Bill, people who didn't seem to be affected by the war, people with prejudices and people without.

I didn't like that the author tries to write the story in the way sixth-graders would really write. The girls have run-on sentences, their thoughts are disconnected, and they don't use proper grammar or punctuation. I found that very distracting and unnecessary.

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Annie

Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2010

Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Virginia Euwer Wolff's Bat 6 takes place in post World War II Oregon, but it could just as easily have taken place in any county in America. Ostensibly, it is about an historic girl's softball play-off in 1949. But really it is a tale of how prejudice and bigotry can bring tragedy and how forgiveness can change it all.

The book follows the girls of the Bear Creek Ridge Grade School team and the Barlow Road Grade School team as they prepare for the fiftieth anniversary of Bat 6, so called because the players had to be in 6th grade, and the trophy was a bat with the names of the winners and the most valuable player inscribed on it.

That year was different from all the other 49 years. People were still recovering from the war, and hard feelings periodically surfaced, as in the racist soaped message about the Japanese on the windows of McHenry's store. Two new players emerged that were to change the Bat 6 tournament forever. Aki Mikami recently returned with her family from a Japanese internment camp, and a brand new girl who called herself Shazam showed up on the first day of school.

The story unfolds through a series of monologues by each member of each team. Shazam's father was killed in Pearl Harbor, and her mother was "not on her feet yet," so Shazam lived with her grandmother. Shazam blamed all Japanese people for her father's death. Although she hinted at this anger several times, no one wanted to confront her about it. They couldn't have guessed that these feelings would result in a tragedy that would permanently mar the final play-off and affect the community for years to come.

It is not the incident itself that makes Bat 6 an award-winning book. Virginia Euwer Wolff won the New York Public Library 100 Best Books of the Year award, a School Library Journal Best Book award, an ALA Notable Book listing, and a Jane Addams Award for this thought provoking work. What makes Bat 6 unique is the community's response to the incident that left Aki in a head and neck brace with her jaw wired shut for the entire summer.

As Virginia Euwer Wolff says on her blog, "As I looked through the characters, I found one who seemed to be ideally suited to do the right thing..... It is her oddness, her peculiarity, that enables her to do the right thing at the end of the story."

Manzanita or Manny to her friends, is the one teammate who convinces Shazam to come and see Aki after the incident. The visit is awkward and uncomfortable, but in the end, Shazam apologizes, making room for individual and community healing.

The book is a powerful foray into issues of racism, prejudice, war, and forgiveness. It is ideal for middle age readers and young adults, 4th grade through high school. The characters are complex, vivid and engaging. Of the 21 teammates, not one is left unchanged, and the same may be said for the entire community. The teen language is convincing and amusing. As Tootie, the catcher for Bear Creek Ridge, says of Aki's prowess on the ball field, "hubba hubba ding ding!"

Bat 6 is one of those books that stays with you long after it has been read.

"I'm not sure we human beings can make complete sense of our history. What we can do is keep telling the stories. And, luckily, we do just that. We keep trying to get it right."
Virginia Euwer Wolff, 2009

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Jae L

My favorite read aloud to my 4th grade class year after year

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2020

This book teaches 2 things: about the craft of writing, and about discrimination. It teaches tolerance of others through getting to know the characters intimately, and loving each one. You will laugh, cry, and be at the edge of your seat. And it is the best teaching tool for teaching kids about voice as writers, which is just about the toughest writing trait to teach. This book is so important in so many ways. I can't recommend it enough.

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Dann J. Golden-collum

Alva asks the right question

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 23, 2015

While it takes some concentration to keep all the characters straight in this book, the payoff is worth it. The story is set in 1949, just a few years after WWII. Racial tensions are still high, though some don't what to admit it. Emotions still run deep between those who supported the war and those who did not. The question asked by Alva still resonates - "How much Christian goodness do we have to learn?"

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