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Title: Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff ISBN: 0-590-89800-0 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Batter Up
Comment: Bat 6, by Virginia Euwer Wolf, is a fun but heart-breaking tale of life a few years after WWII from children's perspectives. Bat 6 is a softball game played by the 6th grade girls of two neighboring small-town American elementary schools, Barlow Road Grade School and Bear Creek Ridge Grade School. There is a new girl on each team, Shazam on the Barlow Road team, and Aki on the Bear Creek Ridge team. Both have been greatly affected by the war. Sadly, the scars of the war will not heal so easily when the girls meet for the first time at Bat 6. It is going to be one great game!
To read this book is to have a look into what life was like after WWII, which is an interesting time period for a child today. In these two towns, being rich is owning a refrigerator. Now it is owning an estate, or a huge business. Life was very different back then. Something surprising to me was the amount of rights women had back then. That was more than 60 years ago, but the women did have many rights. The women in the book were on the town council, actively participated in church activities and the whole Bat 6 game was a bunch of girls playing softball. That is one similarity to daily life back then. They also had hate crimes. The hate crimes in this time period were committed against Japanese-Americans, because of the war between the USA and Japan. The Japanese were put into camps for their safety against hate crimes. One of the main characters, Aki, is Japanese-American and had been put into a camp. Another reason to read this book is to see the world through the eyes of little girls. One goes on a journey with them while each individual girl puts the pieces together about the war. The girls may be small, but they have a huge concept to comprehend. The two new girls, Aki and Shazam, have the most to learn. Sadly Shazam's father had been killed at Pearl Harbor and she holds it against the Japanese, in other words, she holds it against Aki. The girls each tell the many tales of 6th grade from their own perspective. It is a good way to see different points of view. This book provides a whole new look into the world.
One less appealing aspect of the book is its format. There are entries from each girl and when deep into the book, the switch between entrees is not very noticeable. It is confusing when two different points of view are read, and one thinks they are from the same person, but they are not. Another confusing aspect of the format is that the chapters switch from the girls on one team to the girls on the other team. Despite the format flaw, the plot is inspiring and Bat 6 is well written. It is highly recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent read aloud book on multiculturalism and prejudice
Comment: The 50th annual sixth-grade girls softball rivalry between two little Oregon towns has everyone involved. The story is told in little vignettes by the 21 girls who make up the two teams for this year's teams. The arrival of a new girl and the reappearance of another change the expected lineups for the 1949 game. Aki Mikami's family has finally come back to their farm when she is old enough to play for Bear Creek Ridge where her mother was MVP of the 1930 team. Shazam, who plays for Barlow, is a great player, but she harbors deep feelings of hate for the Japanese because her father was killed at Pearl Harbor.
What happens the day of the game forces the players, their families, the coaches, and the whole town to face the issue of bigotry. A strong story convincingly told by the girls themselves from their differing viewpoints of the action.
This would be an excellent read aloud tool for the classroom since it has 21 parts representing the two teams. A natural fto foster discussion of multiculturalism, bigotry, and prejudice.
Rating: 4
Summary: 21 Very Different Girls
Comment: Bat 6 is an annual softball game played by two teams from small towns in Oregon. The Bat 6 game has been going on since 1899, and all of the girls are determined to win this year's Bat 6 game. The two teams names are Barlow Creek and Bear Creek Ridge. Bear Creek Ridge has won more games than Barlow, and that makes the girls on Barlow even more determined to win this year.
The author chose a very complex way of writing this book. In some parts of the book, you can barely understand what she is trying to say. The narrator changes a lot and that's what makes it even more confusing. I like what she chose to do because you get to hear thoughts from different characters about what is going on in the book. Various characters help tell this amazing, complex story. This book gives a lot of detail and makes you think a lot. It is good for kids eight and older because it might be hard for little children to understand, but I would definitely recommend reading this book.
All the girls on each team are different, just like me and you. There is one girl in particular. This girl's name is Shazam. Her father was killed in World War Two, during the Pearl Harbor attack. She hates all Japanese people now. She thinks all of them are evil and they are out to get her. Shazam joins the Barlow team and definitely stands out from the other players.
Bear Creek Ridge gets a new player too. Her name is Aki and she's Japanese. She can throw left and right and can hit very well. She becomes one of the best players on the team, but the other girls don't mind. They are all kind to one another and they are open to all people.
The Bat 6 game comes so soon. This is the day all of the girls have been waiting for all of their lives. The game is going well; the teams are both doing very well. Everyone is nervous. Towards the end of the game, something happens that will change the girls' lives forever and will go down in Bat 6 history. Something that no one is expecting. A terrible event, maybe the worst the girls had ever seen, something that damaged a person for a long time, maybe even for life.
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Title: Tangerine by Edward Bloor ISBN: 0439286034 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo ISBN: 0763616052 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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