Out of Bounds
Published on 4. September 2024
336 pages
978-1-4607-1717-2 (ISBN)
Description
When you're 12 years old and 6 foot tall, people ask the most annoying questions. The #1 Most Annoying Question according to Alma T. Best is, 'Do you play basketball?'
Uh, no. She hates basketball.
Then Alma wins a scholarship to attend Holy Grace, a fancy, basketball-obsessed girls school, and she worries about fitting in.
Rather than admit she lives in Shellsville, home to Holy Grace's biggest basketball rivals, she pretends to have grown up on a distant peach farm.
But when a twist of fate means Alma has to suddenly produce large quantities of peaches, she finds herself in a bit of a jam ...
Uh, no. She hates basketball.
Then Alma wins a scholarship to attend Holy Grace, a fancy, basketball-obsessed girls school, and she worries about fitting in.
Rather than admit she lives in Shellsville, home to Holy Grace's biggest basketball rivals, she pretends to have grown up on a distant peach farm.
But when a twist of fate means Alma has to suddenly produce large quantities of peaches, she finds herself in a bit of a jam ...
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Pymble
Australia
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 9 years
Illustrations
Not illustrated
ISBN-13
978-1-4607-1717-2 (9781460717172)
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Katherine Collette is the author of two novels for adults, The Helpline and The Competition. The Helpline was published in Australia, the UK, the US, Italy and Germany and long listed for the Indie Book award for debut fiction. Katherine co-hosts popular writing podcast The First Time and its recent spin-off The Next Step. She coaches writers and authors on writing and publishing, and her cartoons have appeared in Griffith Review.
The Too-Tall Tales of Alma T. Best are her first middle-grade books.
The Too-Tall Tales of Alma T. Best are her first middle-grade books.
