Playing for Pride

A New Sport with New Rules --Can Laurie Come Through for Her Team?With the girls' softball season about to start, fifth-grader Laurie Bird Preston can't decide what to do. Her friends are trying out for the team, but Laurie knows she's no softball player -- basketball is her sport. She helped lead her middle school's girls' basketball team to a state championshiop just a few weeks earlier. What fun will she have playing a sport she's no good at and might not even like? But with patience, practice -- and help form her friends and an eccentric old woman with a mysterious past -- Laurie might just learn that she doesn't have to be the best player to be part of the team.Tocher, Timothy is the author of 'Playing for Pride' with ISBN 9780689024535 and ISBN 0689024533.