Sidelined

Gabby Garcia's Ultimate Playbook

by Iva-Marie Palmer, Marta Kissi (Illustrator)

“Perfect for fans of Big Nate and Dork Diaries.”—Nerdy Book Club

It’s curveball after curveball for star pitcher Gabby Garcia in the final book of this laugh-out-loud illustrated series full of doodles, sports trivia, and home-run humor!

Gabby has gotten her team out of some tough jams on the mound, but when a freak accident temporarily takes her out of the game, she is at a total loss. Can Gabby still be Gabby if she's benched from the action

None of it might matter, though, once she learns her family might move to another state. Gabby needs a game plan—and her playbook—more than ever!

288 pages, Hardcover

First published August 6, 2019

About the author

Iva-Marie Palmer is the author of the young adult novels Gimme Everything You Got and The End of the World as We Know It. She also wrote the Gabby Garcia's Ultimate Playbook series and Oh My Dog! for middle grade readers, as well as the books Romeo, Juliet and Jim and the Edgar Award-nominated The Jules Verne Prophecy with co-writer Larry Schwarz. Christmas People is her first adult novel.

Before writing professionally, Palmer worked as an award-winning community news reporter in Chicago's South Suburbs and as a web editor for the Walt Disney Company. She also got to know many a Christmas person working at a Hallmark store through high school and college.

Palmer now resides in Burbank, California with her husband and two sons.

Reviews

[Mali Robinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a super nice book and I certainly enjoyed reading it. One of the things I liked to most is that in one of Gabby's plays Peter and Gabby were shocked at their grandmother. Obviously, I'm not going to tell what they were shocked but trust me they were super shocked. Alo I loved her connection between johnny and her its super sweet. That's why I would give it a 5-star rating.

[Corina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two and a half stars.