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This goes up there with In The Year Of The Boar And Jackie Robinson as one of the great kids' books about the Brooklyn Dodgers with female protagonists; it's also a really thoughtful look at the Korean War, which doesn't get a lot of page time in children's and YA lit, at least from what I've read. Maggie is a fantastic heroine and the fact that the book is built around her scorekeeping -- I am a devoted scorekeeper at baseball games -- just made it all the more lovely for me.
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Jan 15, 2021
Kirsten Barber
marked it as to-read
