The All-American
(Hardback, Large Print Edition)
Publishing Details
The All-American
By (Author) Susie Finkbeiner
Center Point Large Print
Center Point General
1st August 2023
Large Print Edition
United States
Classifications
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
Narrative theme: Sense of place
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Physical Properties
Hardback
500
Width 148mm, Height 223mm
Description
Two sisters discover how much good there is in the world -- even in the hardest of circumstances. It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys -- she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
