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Bat 6, Virginia Euwer Wolff
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Bat 6
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Virginia Euwer Wolff
- Verlag
- Scholastic
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0590898000
- ISBN13
- 9780590898003
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Militärgeschichte, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Amerikanische Literatur
- Bewertung
- 3,55 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one sixth-grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface. Set in a small Oregon town just after World War II, this is the powerful tale of a community shattered by its reaction to two young newcomers, Aki and Shazam. Told from 21 different points of view, "Bat 6" explores the subject of Japanese-American racial prejudice after the war. Photographs and text present an up-close look at varied aspects of the lives of professional basketball players, from pre-game preparations, practice, game action, signing autographs, and more. A Japanese American girl who has just spent 6 years in an internment camp meets a bitter girl whose father was killed in Pearl Harbor, & the two become rivals in baseball in this story narrated by the members of the opposing teams.