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Out of Order by Betty Hicks

Baseball. I'm very good at baseball. Baseball is the only part of my life I have any control over. Baseball is the only reason I'm still in school.

Problem: I'm not out on the field. I'm in here. There's no way you can think about baseball when your body's trapped in a hard chair in a quiet room, and you can't move at all. When you can't feel the shock of the bat running up your arm into your shoulder. When you can't feel the whump of the ball in your glove.

When the girl you've been in love with since seventh grade walked off mad, and as usual she's going to stay that way till you crawl like a dog.

In this new novel from the acclaimed author of Damage, Colt Trammel's life is falling apart. His girlfriend has dumped him (again), and his mother has told him that unless he can raise his GPA to a C, she won't let him play baseball anymore. The next six weeks will test Colt in a way he's never been tested before, and how he gets through them is hilarious, poignant, and powerfully believable.

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Stepfamilies in literature get such amazingly bad press, says Betty Hicks. Evil stepmothers are forever locking unwanted children away in lofty towers, and there are all those jealous brats who cook up dastardly plots to keep their stepsiblings in rags and ashes. Even modern novels for young people show blended families facing huge doses of hostility.
What if, I wondered, a gril has a stepfamily that is so much fun, she never wants to leave it--even to visit her mother?
Betty Hicks is the author of I Smell Like Ham, a humorous yet true-to-life portrayal of family blending (Kirkus Reviews). She and her husband, Bill live in Greensboro, North Carolina, where their now-grown blended family grew up.
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ISBN 13 9781596430617
ISBN 10 1596430613
Title Out of Order
Author Betty Hicks
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Roaring Brook Press
Year published 2005-09-01
Number of pages 169
Prizes Short-listed for Golden Sower Award (Intermediate) 2009, Short-listed for Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award 2007, Short-listed for Black-Eyed Susan Award (Grades 4-6) 2008, Short-listed for William Allen White Childens Book Award (Grades 6-8) 2008
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