Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story

by Emily Arnold McCully

Book Overview

From a Caldecott medalist Emily Arnold McCully comes Queen of the Diamond, the story of the groundbreaking female baseball player Lizzie Murphy.

Lizzie Murphy was good at baseball. In fact, she was better than most of the boys. But she was born in 1900, and back then baseball was not a game for girls. Lizzie practiced with her brother anyway, and then she talked her way onto the local boys' team, first as a batboy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374300070
• ISBN13: 9780374300074
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.3" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3