In this epistolary middle grade novel, Vivy Cohen won't let autism stop her from playing baseball—not when she has a major-league pitcher as her pen pal. Vivy Cohen wants to play baseball. Ever since her hero, Major League star pitcher VJ Capello, taught her how to throw a knuckleball at a family fun day for kids with autism, she's been perfecting her pitch. And now she knows she's ready to play on a real team. When her social skills teacher makes her write a letter to someone she knows, she writes to VJ and tells him everything about how much she wants to pitch, and how her mom says she can't because she's a girl and because she has autism.
And then two amazing things happen: Vivy meets a Little League coach who invites her to join his team, the Flying Squirrels. And VJ starts writing back.
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Genre: #YA #MiddleGrade #Contemporary
Disability rep: #ND #AutismSpectrumDisorder
Publication date: #February2020 #2020year
Awards won: Schneider Family Book Award Nominee, Middle Grades (2021)