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Nikki on the Line Nikki lives for basketball--she and her best friend have been playing together since they were in kindergarten. Now 13, Nikki desperately wants to join the Northern Virginia Action, an extremely competitive club team. At 5'4", though, she's the shortest girl trying out. Will she make the team? And, if she does, can she be a real competitor? As a kid growing up in the '60s, author Barbara Carroll Roberts, who played basketball in high school, wanted books about girls who were loud and fast and strong; she never got them, so she wrote one. Little, Brown executive editor Lisa Yoskowitz, who "fell in love with Nikki on the Line from the moment [she] dipped into the manuscript," highlights this as part of what makes Nikki so special: the book "puts a female athlete front and center, depicting the often formative experience of being part of a team." Nikki's middle-grade voice is warm, authentic and delightful, sure to win over readers, whatever their feelings about basketball. --Siân Gaetano, children's and YA editor, Shelf Awareness (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $16.99 hardcover, 9780316521901, March 5, 2019) This offer has ended. |
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