Step up to the plate, Maria Singh

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Title:

Author:

Krishnaswami, Uma, 1956- author.

ISBN:

9781600602610

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

276 pages ; 20 cm

Abstract:

"Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland"-- Provided by publisher. Includes historical notes.

Reading Level:

680L Lexile.

680L Lexile

Program Information:

Reading Counts 3-5 4.2 11.0.

Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 7.0.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.6 7 189293.

Accelerated reading Level 4.6.

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.

Farm life -- California -- Juvenile fiction.

Softball -- Juvenile fiction.

East Indian Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Mexican Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction.

Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.

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Summary

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)

Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Girls' League, while her parents and neighbors are struggling through World War II, working for India's independence, and trying to stay on their farmland.

Nine-year-old Maria Singh longs to play softball in the first-ever girls' team forming in Yuba City, California. It's the spring of 1945, and World War II is dragging on. Miss Newman, Maria's teacher, is inspired by Babe Ruth and the All-American Girls' League to start a girls' softball team at their school.

Meanwhile, Maria's parents-Papi from India and Mamá from Mexico-can no longer protect their children from prejudice and from the discriminatory laws of the land. When the family is on the brink of losing their farm, Maria must decide if she has what it takes to step up and find her voice in an unfair world.

In this fascinating middle grade novel, award-winning author Uma Krishnaswami sheds light on a little-known chapter of American history set in a community whose families made multicultural choices before the word had been invented.

Notes

Uma Krishnaswami was born in India and now lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Her novel, Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh , won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Uma has been nominated twice for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She teaches in the MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Visit her online at umakrishnaswami.com.