Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings

Inspired by the life of pioneering female baseball player Alta Weiss, and dramatized by Terry Widener’s bold illustrations, Girl Wonder tells the unforgettable story of a true American original.

Alta Weiss was born to play baseball, simple as that. From the age of two, when she hurls a corncob at a pesky tomcat, folks in her small Ohio town know one thing for sure: She may be a girl, but she’s got some arm.

When she’s seventeen, Alta hears about a semipro team, the Independents. Here’s her big chance! But one look at Alta’s long skirts tells Coach all he needs to know — girls can’t play baseball! But faster than you can say “strike out,” Alta proves him wrong: Girls can play baseball!

• Author
• Deborah Hopkinson, Terry Widener

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 40

• Publisher
• Aladdin

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781416913931

• Characters
• Alta Weiss Hisrich

• Settings
• Ohio

• Genres
• sports, baseball, childrens

• Release date
• 2006