Three Strike Summer

  • Author: Skyler Schrempp
  • Narrator: Skyler Schrempp
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 7:10:20
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Synopsis

NAMED A 2023 ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN’S RECORDING!

Four starred reviews!

“Told in a voice that is so real it reeks of filched peaches, this book is a home run.” —Amy Sarig King, Printz Award–winning author of Dig and The Year We Fell from Space

Sandlot meets Esperanza Rising in this “vividly rendered, emotionally vulnerable” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) middle grade historical novel about a strong-willed girl who finds her voice in a tale of moxie, peaches, and determination to thrive despite the odds.

When the skies dried up, Gloria thought it was temporary. When the dust storms rolled in, she thought they would pass. But now the bank man’s come to take the family farm, and Pa’s decided to up and move to California in search of work. They’ll pick fruit, he says, until they can save up enough money to buy land of their own again.

There are only three rules at the Santa Ana Holdsten Peach Orchard:
No stealing product.
No drunkenness or gambling.
And absolutely no organizing.

Well, Gloria Mae Willard isn’t about to organize any peaches, no ma’am. She’s got more on her mind than that. Like the secret, all-boys baseball team she’s desperate to play for, if only they’d give her a chance. Or the way that wages keep going down. The way their company lodgings are dirty and smelly, and everyone seems intent on leaving her out of everything.

But Gloria has never been the type to wait around for permission. If the boys won’t let her play, she’ll find a way to make them. If the people around her are keeping secrets, then she’ll keep a few of her own. And if the boss men at the Santa Ana Holdsten Peach Orchard say she can’t organize peaches, then by golly she’ll organize a whole ball game.

Chapters

  • 001 ThreeStrikeSummer Open

    Duration: 11s
  • 002 ThreeStrikeSummer Part1 Chapter1

    Duration: 19min
  • 003 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter2

    Duration: 14min
  • 004 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter3

    Duration: 15min
  • 005 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter4

    Duration: 14min
  • 006 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter5

    Duration: 13min
  • 007 ThreeStrikeSummer Part2 Chapter6

    Duration: 11min
  • 008 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter7

    Duration: 22min
  • 009 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter8

    Duration: 14min
  • 010 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter9

    Duration: 22min
  • 011 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter10

    Duration: 21min
  • 012 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter11

    Duration: 18min
  • 013 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter12

    Duration: 22min
  • 014 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter13

    Duration: 15min
  • 015 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter14

    Duration: 22min
  • 016 ThreeStrikeSummer Part3 Chapter15

    Duration: 23min
  • 017 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter16

    Duration: 18min
  • 018 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter17

    Duration: 11min
  • 019 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter18

    Duration: 16min
  • 020 ThreeStrikeSummer Chapter19

    Duration: 16min
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