By: Megan McDonald, 92 pp.
Girls can play sports too, and Julie Albright is out to prove it! Julie's parents get divorced and Julie's sister and her have to move with their mom to an apartment above her mother's store.
Julie is finding a hard time to fit in with the kids at her new school until she meets T.J. Her and T.J. bounce the basketball around in the gym after school. T.J. mentions the sign up sheet for basketball players that is to be posted outside Coach Manley's office. However, when Julie goes to sign up, she is told that no girls can play sports. "Sports are for boys."
Julie is so upset, she decides to get signatures on a petition. She gets the petition idea from her mom's friend, Hank, who is a vet petitioning for the veteran's center to be opened back up.
Julie gets 150 signatures just to have Coach Manley throw it away! She worked so hard! Julie decides to dig it out of the trash and go to the school principal. The principal tells her he will have to bring it up to the school board and get back to her....... Will she get to play? Or are sports really just for boys?
At the end of this book, there are stories of real girls wanting to do the things that only were meant for boys, but they work towards changing those rules and become famous!
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