Name: Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! [Large Print]
Author: Kapit, Sarah
ISBN: [978-1-43288-684-4,1-43288-684-3]

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Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! [Large Print]

Author: Kapit, Sarah

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Follett Number: 1648MR5
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, c2020, p2021
Format: 393 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-43288-684-4
ISBN-10: 1-43288-684-3
LCCN: 2020-055873
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Large Print; Fiction

Subjects:

Autism Fiction

Baseball Fiction

Family Life Fiction

Large Type Books

Letters Fiction

Pen Pals Fiction

Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class.

From the publisher:
"Vivy Cohen wants to play baseball. Ever since her hero, Major League star pitcher VJ Capello, taught her how to throw a knuckleball at a family fun day for kids with autism, she's been perfecting her pitch. And now she knows she's ready to play on a real team. When her social skills teacher makes her write a letter to someone she knows, she writes to VJ and tells him everything about how much she wants to pitch, and how her mom says she can't because she's a girl and because she has autism. And then twoamazing things happen- Vivy meets a Little League coach who invites her to join his team, the Flying Squirrels. And VJ starts writing back"--

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Audience: Upper Elementary

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