num_pages: 192
description: From Nic Stone the New York Times bestselling author of Clean Getaway comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the pitch.Shenice Lockwood has her eyes set on the Fastpitch World Series. As team captain she'd like nothing more than to help her girls take home the trophy and the $10000 prize money. And as one of the few brown faces on the field it'd be a personal triumph to show-up her rich white opponents.But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her Uncle Jack reveals that a family crime may have been a set-up all along. Shenice will stop at nothing to uncover the past. The closer she gets to the truth though the further she gets from her goals for the future.From the New York Times bestselling author of Clean Getaway Nic Stone seamlessly pairs the history of the Negro Leagues with the story of a contemporary Black tween determined to blaze a trail of her own.
language: English
title: Fast Pitch
publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers