Download Out of Left Field The Gordon Family Saga Ellen Klages 9780425288603 Books
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Out of Left Field The Gordon Family Saga Ellen Klages 9780425288603 Books Reviews
- Gordon’s persistence is awesome. My daughter read this book in a few hours.
- OUT OF LEFT FIELD took me by surprise and I love it when books do that.
The plot sounded good. I like books with strong girls and Katy who is determined to play baseball at all costs sounded like a girl with gumption. I also enjoy historical fiction. I've always been a bit of a history geek so I love when authors utilize the sense of place and deep history of a period as the setting for their stories.
I was expected a good historical fiction story about a strong girl. I got so much more. This is a book full of heart and history and depth that everyone should read.
OUT OF LEFT FIELD tells the story of a girl named Katy Gordon in 1957 who makes the little league team in her town only to be told she can't play because the rules state girls are ineligible. Surrounded by a cool history teacher, a strong scientist mom, and the role model of two creative older sisters she takes is upon herself to stand up and change this policy. In the process she learns the fascinating and true history of women in baseball.
Even as I'm typing out the plot I have to admit that it sounds a little slow and a little cliche. I think that's how this book surprised me. It is a page turner and little turns out as you would expect.
The characters are so vividly portrayed that you feel like you know them and can't wait to see how their stories all turn out. It is of course Katy, flawed, impatient, determined Katy, that you root for from the start to the end, but the book is full of interesting people who all have depth and purpose and dreams that are articulated by a skillful writer.
The addition of the history only warms the pages with quirky trivia and intense details that bring alive the time of sputnik and integration and Hostess cupcakes. This is a book that confidently says we came from somewhere and that history is important and yet we are always responsible for our every day decisions.
I don't know how it's possible to write a book that includes the space race, internment camps, integration, gender inequality, baseball history and more and still have you feel like it's a gripping story of a girl standing up for herself but that is exactly what Ellen Klages has done. This is a book that should be read as much for it's look at an important time in American history as it should for just being a really good story.
*Note I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion. - Out of Left Field
By Ellen Klages (@ellenklages)
Thank you to Viking Publishing for the opportunity to read this book. #partner Also, thank you, @kidlitexchange network for the review copy of this book 📚 The opinions are my own!
The best books, in my opinion, are the ones that don’t entertain but also teach you something along the way. Out of Left Field did that and more.
A strong-willed and super pitcher, Katy Gordon loves baseball. She wants to join Little League so she tries out and makes the team. However, it is 1957, and girls aren’t allowed to play. So what will this smart and determined young woman do to right this terrible wrong? Is the world ready for fragile young ladies to play the rough sport of baseball?
Take a journey with Katy as she discovers her voice and just how powerful it really is.
#girlpower #girlsinsports #fightforyourrights #speakup #baseball #itsnevertolatetodowhatisright
#kidlitexchange#ilovereading #fortheloveofbooks #bookmom #readersofinstagram #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #alwaysreading #bookworm #booknerd #bookstack #booksbooksbooks #bookish #bookishfeatures #igreads #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram #booknerd #booklove #booklover#bookblogger #bibliophile #bookaddict #earlyliteracy #readingmatters #bookscanchangetheworld #teacherreader #childrensbooks - "Why did not being a boy make such a big difference? I didn't always look like a girl, and I definitely didn't throw like a girl. Did what was inside my pants really count more than practice and skill?Not fair."
Out of Left Field follows Katy Gordon and a young girl who wants to keep playing baseball with the neighborhood boys as they join little league. Thiers one problem with this, she's a girl and it's 1957 and girls have no place in little league or baseball.
This leads Katy Gordon on a fight to prove that girls can play just as good as boys and that the little league rules aren't right.
Overall I absolutely loved this book! Katy was a character that is so smart, yet still able to be a child at the same time. Katy's mom is a professor at a local university and her dad while divorced from her mom is working for the military and is helping create a big part of Galactical History. Because of these things, Katy not only has the world at her fingertips she also has support to be anything that she can be. With a little help from her mom, Katy is able to start fighting the Little League rules and learns a lot about women in baseball and why they were pushed out.
"Wrigley wanted players who looked like ladies and played like men."
If you loved the movie a League of Their Own then you will adore this book as well. I loved learning about so many different baseball players and the achievements they made. From desegregation of players to getting benched the whole game these women while always pushed to the side showed that girls are just as good as boys if not been when it comes to sports. If you want to know more about the women and a timeline here's a link to usabaseball.com page all about women in baseball
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