In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.

 

This book was recognised in the Grades 4-8 category by the Young Reader's Choice Award. It was recognised in the Grades 6-8 category by the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award.

There are 230 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Scholastic US .

Virginia Euwer Wolff lives in Oregon City, Oregon and is currently at work on a third and final book about LaVaughn. She is also the author of three other books for young adults: Probably Still Nick Swansen, The Mozart Season, and Bat 6.