Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Tuesday's Child
Nancy Baron · 1984
63/100
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A girl determined to break into professional baseball in 1984 is a premise with real heart, and the ballet-versus-Little League scheduling conflict is a practical, relatable version of the big dream-versus-family-expectations tension. The problem is this book left almost no critical record, it is over forty years old, and the gender-in-sports landscape has shifted enough that today's readers would need context the book wasn't written to provide. A library find for a dedicated sports-fiction reader, not a first recommendation.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance62
craft60
originality60
accuracy65
hype45
age-fit75
human-eye58
Penny’s verdict63
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