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    BAT 6

    Written by Virginia Euwer Wolff

    3.5/5

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    Bat 6-that's the softball game played every year between the sixth-grade girls of Barlow and Bear Creek Ridge. All the girls-Beautiful Hair Hallie, Manzanita who gets the spirit, the twins Lola and Lila, Tootie, Shadean-they've been waiting for their turn at Bat 6 since they could first toss a ball.
    This time there's a newcomer on each team: Aki, at first base for the Ridgers, who just returned with her family from a place she's too embarrassed to talk about. And Shazam, center field for Barlow, who's been shunted around by her mother since her father was killed on December 7, 1941.
    The adukts of the two towns would rather not speak about why Aki's family had to "go away." They can't quite admit just how "different" Shazam is. And that is why the two girls are on a collision course that explodes catastrophically on the morning Bat 6, the day they've been preparing for all their lives.


    From the Compact Disc edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 6, 2009
    ISBN9780307706065
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    BAT 6
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    Virginia Euwer Wolff

    Virginia Euwer Wolff is an accomplished violinist and former elementary school and high school English teacher. Her first book for young readers, Probably Still Nick Swansen, was published in 1988 and won both the International Reading Association Award and the PEN-West Book Award. Since then she has written several more critically acclaimed young adult novels, earning more honors, including the National Book Award for True Believer, as well as the Golden Kite Award for Fiction and the Jane Addams Book Award for Children’s Books that Build Peace. Her books include Make Lemonade, The Mozart Season, This Full House and Bat 6. She lives in Oregon.

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    • 3/5
      What would it be like to be taken from your home and locked away during the second world war, simply because you are of Japanese decent? What would it be like to then return home after the war has ended?

      This book focuses on the second question through the eyes of many middle school age girls with powerful and complex answers.

      Lexile: 930
    • 3/5
      This may not be a fair review. I have a few issues with Bat 6. You have been warned.Bat 6 is the story of how racism hit home following World War II in small town rural Oregon. Every year, the sixth grade girls in the rival towns of Bear Creek Ridge and Barlow Road have a softball game. It's a big deal. Everyone in both towns comes to see the game. The girls spend the entire school year practicing for it. It's meant to bring the two communities together, to inspire good sportsmanship, and to build the character of the girls and everyone who attends. In 1948 two new girls arrive. Aki is not really new--her family was sent to a relocation camp along with most of the Japanese Americans living in the western half of America. They are trying to restart their orchards. "After a few minor incidents, Aki's family is re-integrated into the town. Everyone is basically embarrased by what happend to them and anxious to leave the past in the past. Shazam, Shirley to her teachers, is on the new girl on the other team. She has come to live with her grandmother because her own mother is not capable of supporting her and her father, a sailor, was killed when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Though she is a difficult person, the girls on her team try to help Shazam adjust to her new home.This should be a good review. The book is well written, well intended. It does not sugar-coat the issues it deals with nor does it resort to preaching. The characters are strong, and the suspenseful plot holds the reader's interest as the story builds to a thought provoking climax. But I still have a few issues.I find it hard to believe that none of the girls besides Shazam have any problems with Aki. Nor do any of their parents. There is set of fathers who will not speak to each other becuase one was a conscientious objector while the other fought in the war. I find this well within believabitily. But I find it hard to accept that the only other character in town with any significant prejudice against Aki and her family is Shazam. It's only 1948. Which brings me to my second problem with Bat 6. The prejudiced character, Shazam, is dirt poor, the product of an absent single mother, probably emotionally disturbed and mentally handicapped. While she is an excellent ball player, she cannot learn her multiplication tables. The rest of the girls have no issues with prejudice. While they are not all wealthy, they are the product of well adjusted, two parent families and none of them are as poor as Shazam's grandmother. That Shazam is the only "bad" girl in the lot is problematic at least. It makes the novel imply that only certain types of people carry racial hatred. If your parents are good people like us, you won't be prejudiced. This has not been my experience with prejudice.Lastly, why do YA authors and publisher insists on using multiple voices in their novels? Every girl on both teams takes a turn narrating Bat 6. Even adult readers find this device confusing. It's the thing I hate most about Bleak House. Time and again my students have told me they don't like multiple narrators because it confuses them. Even with a relatively easy read like No More Dead Dogs, the mulitple narrators serve to confuse and irritate many middle school readers. Please stop it. The sixth and seventh grade students in room 29 implore you.
    • 4/5
      This book is a good example of historical fiction because through an event that happens between Shazam and Aki during the annual 6th grade girl softball game makes everyone think about their true feelings after WWII. The feelings that were felt by Shazam were what a lot of people were thinking that lost a loved one in the war. Also the discrimination that Aki and her family had to go through also happened during and after the war.
    • 3/5
      A little confusing with the changing narrative but overall a powerful and complex piece of historical fiction.
    • 5/5
      Notes:The narrative of events, at times reluctant, revolves around a 6th grade girls softball game threads a tale of camaraderie, sportsmanship and allegiances. Set in the years after World War II, the town members of this Pacific Northwest region grapple with formalities and changing times. The polyvolic format winds the reader through the events leading up to the big game and the catalyzing interaction that challenges the status quo. Personal Reaction: I loved this book! I ignored my family for half an afternoon and was swept by the girls telling their versions. In some ways it was so foreign to me, the reality of the Japanese American’s at the time of the war and the patriotic Rah! Rah! that controlled much of the societal interactions. I was incredibly moved at the undercurrents of prejudice and discomfort that were addressed due to the event of the game. The opportunities for personal growth as a result of a tragic event were monumental and in many ways long overdue. I highly recommend Bat 6.