Language: R (40 swears, 14 ‘f’); Mature Content: R (on page sex); Violence: PG (racist names)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - NO
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Alex, 16yo, a biracial black girl, was adopted by her white family before her two younger siblings were born. Her baseball obsessed dad has raised them in the game – Alex and Jason join wholeheartedly, but youngest Kit wants nothing to do with the game. Alex has, of course, always known that she is a different color than her family, but they have done their best to protect her from other people’s cruelties. Now, however, Kit has uncovered letters that Alex’s birth dad wrote to her, complete with an address. And an intriguing ball player from a rival team challenges her lack of knowledge of her blackness.
Alex’s sports-at-any-cost father is a distraction from Alex’s questions about her birth family and her heritage. He didn’t need to be portrayed as an emotionally abusive parent her Alex to be interested in her roots. And the quick slide from intriguing boy to ending up in bed is a real turn off for me, especially with descriptive parts. It’s too bad Gibney decided to obscure a very good story about a girl coming to terms with herself with the other questionable choices.
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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