First Line Friday #97- The All-American

Happy Friday, my bookish friends! Today I am headed back to Ohio from Tennessee, I was able to enjoy lots of pool time this week! I hope you all have a great Friday and weekend! First Line Friday is hosted by Carrie at Reading is My SuperPower!!  I am also linking up with Gilion on Rose City Reader for Book Beginnings. This is where you share the beginning of the book that you are reading. This week am reading The All-American by Susie Finkbeiner.

According to Mrs. Higgenbottom-home economics teacher at Boneadventure Park High School-there were certain skills that the average girl needed to master in order to secure for herself a good husband, live in a nice home, raise clean-cut children, and serve her country.

Book Beginnings:

According to Mrs. Higgenbottom-home economics teacher at Boneadventure Park High School-there were certain skills that the average girl needed to master in order to secure for herself a good husband, live in a nice home, raise clean-cut children, and serve her country. Those skills included, in no particular order:

1. Keeping a spic-and-span house.
2. The wherewithal to put super on the table at the exact time her husband wanted it.
3. The coordination to wear pumps while chasing toddlers and the grace to maintain her perfectly set hair while scrubbing the tub.

Et cetera, Et cetera.

Synopsis (Goodreads):

It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys--she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

When Bertha's father is accused of being part of the Communist Party by the House Un-American Activities Committee, life comes crashing down on them. Disgraced and shunned, the Hardings move to a small town to start over where the only one who knows them is shy Uncle Matthew. But dreams are hard to kill, and when Bertha gets a chance to try out for the Workington Sweet Peas, she packs her bags for an adventure she'll never forget.

Join award-winning author Susie Finkbeiner for a summer of chasing down your dreams and discovering the place you truly belong.

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