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From #1New York Timesbestselling author Nic Stone comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the field.
Shenice Lockwood, captain of the Fulton Firebirds, is hyper-focused when she steps up to the plate. Nothing can stop her from leading her team to the U12 fast-pitch softball regional championship. But life has thrown some curveballs her way.
Strike one:As the sole team of all-brown faces, Shenice and the Firebirds have to work twice as hard to prove that Black girls belong at bat.
Strike two:Shenices focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-endingand family-name-ruiningcrime may have been a setup.
Strike three:Broken focus means mistakes on the field. And Shenices teammates are beginning to wonder if shes captain-qualified.
Its up to Shenice to discover the truth about her familys pastand fastbefore secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever.