What a lovely, lovely book!I don't know anything about baseball. I've seen what the bat looks like, and I've heard random terms like 'home run' and 'strike', but that's the extent of my knowledge. And yet, I loved Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!, a book that's all about baseball!Vivy Cohen is fed up with people saying that girls should play softball, not baseball. When she's practising the knuckleball (and I have no idea what that is!) with her brother Nate, a coach spots her and wants her to pitch for the team, Flying Squirrels. Vivy has no idea if her mother will let her because her mother always, always wants to 'protect' her. Vivy is autistic, plus she is the only girl in what is traditionally a boys' sport. Things don't look very promising---and they get worse when she suffers an accident during a game.We learn all this, and more, through letters Vivy writes to Major League … [Read more...]