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The Girl Who Changed Little League: The True Story of Maria Pepe and Her Battle to Play Ball. by Maria Pepe with Jean L. S. Patrick

Sparrow Loves Reptiles by Murry Burgess and Tamisha Anthony

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Girls are bad-a$$ in ways they might not know. And Maria Pepe did not really know it, she just knew she wanted to play Little League. But the powers that be said girls can’t play. Yet, Maria was not going to let herself be stopped. And Pepe with Jean L. S. Patrick showed how this could be done in The Girl Who Changed Little League: The True Story of Maria Pepe and Her Battle to Play Ball. The story is simple: Girl loves baseball. Girl […]

Cracked crockery is a thing of the past!

Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine : Josephine Cochrane's Bright Invention Makes a Splash by Kate Hannigan

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As mentioned in a previous review(s) I have been going through my online reader copy links.  And I was picking out the older ones (those from mid and late 2022 to about four or five months ago), and I found Josephine and Her Dishwashing Machine : Josephine Cochrane’s Bright Invention Makes a Splash Kate Hannigan and illustrated by Sarah Green. Currently available, as said, I read online. The book report part of this review is that while the woman inventor has been seen before, I […]

“Bon appétit!” “Enjoy your meal!”

Born Hungry: Julia Child Becomes the French Chef by Alex Prud’Homme

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Julia Child was just bada$$. Working in the Office of Strategic Services, learning to cook as an “older” woman, inventing a formula that was a shark repellent (wonder if that is where Batman got his Bat-Shark Repellent?) and just being herself, Child was and would become (in her words) Born Hungry: Julia Child Becomes the French Chef and would teach others that it was worth the time to learn how to do thing the “right way” when it came to cooking the perfect dish or […]



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