BAT 6

ISBN 9780590898003

Bat 6 is about two sixth grade softball teams meet to play an annual game in 1949 America. The War is over. But it hasn’t left people’s minds. When a girl whose father died in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor meets a girl who was imprisoned with her family in an American concentration camp for four years, what is going to happen? Both girls have learned lessons from the War. Only one of them is about hating. All the girls on both teams take turns telling the story of how Aki’s and Shazam’s lives—and everybody’s—change on game day. BAT 6 won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.