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No Cream Puffs
  • Published: 15 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9780375837760
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $17.99

No Cream Puffs

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22 Jan 2008
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15 Apr 2010
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This is a delightful middle grade novel about a girl who's a great natural athlete. Jocks and non-jocks will enjoy Madison's exciting games and the ups and downs of family life and friendship.

MADISON IS NOT your average 12-year-old girl from Michigan in 1980. She doesn’t use lipgloss, but she loves to play sports, and joins baseball for the summer—the first girl in Southern Michigan to play on a boys’ team. The press call her a star and a trailblazer, but Madison just wants to play ball. Who knew it would be so much pressure? Crowds flock to the games. Her team will win the championship—if she can keep up her pitching streak. Meanwhile, she’s got a crush on a fellow player, her best friend abandons her for the popular girls, the “O” on her Hinton’s uniform forms a bulls-eye over her left breast, and the boy she punched on the last day of school plans to bean her in the championship game.
  • Published: 15 April 2010
  • ISBN: 9780375837760
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $17.99
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Praise for No Cream Puffs

Praise for No Cream Puffs:

"Baseball provides fertile ground for exploring cultural and personal issues in this satisfying novel...Her feelings and choices ring true as do her teammates' complex reactions. Since controversy still surrounds girls playing football, this fine sports story is fresh and relevant."--Kirkus Reviews
"History is full of sports stories about 'first' females, but YA fiction is not, making this perceptive, enjoyable title, packed with exciting baseball, particularly welcome."--Booklist
"Madison's voice and perceptions ring true... [An] engaging novel."--School Library Journal