Book Info:
Tryouts by Sarah Sax
Genre: Middle Grade Graphic Novel
Publishing Date: May 7, 2024
Synopsis:
It’s warm up time in this newest installment in the Brinkley Yearbook series. Will Alexandra make the cut and help the historically boys baseball team defend their 9-year championship title?
Alexandra, also known as Al, has been playing baseball with her older brothers for as long as she can remember. But when she ages out of Little League, it seems like it’s the end of the road for Al and the sport she loves. Until, that is, her friend Sammy suggests that Al try out for the middle school team—a team that has always been boys-only.
Al is prepared to fight for her right to try out, but to her surprise, the coach is delighted by her interest. When Al makes the team, it seems like everything is going to work out. But with a tenth consecutive championship on the line for Brinkley Middle School and a team that can’t seem to get along, will their season ground out faster than Al can say “home run”?
Book Links:
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tryouts-sarah-sax/1144040375
About the Author:
Sarah cares deeply about encouraging young readers to discover and expand their sense of creative confidence. She studied Storytelling and Sequential Imagery at Hampshire College and she’s since worked as an educator at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, a volunteer with 826 Valencia, and as Creative Director at Lumosity, where she led a team of artists working with scientists and game designers to transform problem-solving and memory skills into brain-training games. She is the illustrator of the first three books (Escape This Book: Titanic; Escape this Book: Tombs of Egypt; and Escape This Book: Race to the Moon) in the inventive, interactive Escape This Book! series, which has been translated into eight languages. Tryouts, her second of four graphic novels in the Brinkley Yearbooks series, will be published in the spring of 2024. She lives in Portland, Maine.
Author Links:
Website: https://www.sarahsax.me/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahsaxart
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahsaxart/
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Before I start this review I have a little confession to make. I already had a pre-order for tryouts as I loved Picture Day so much.
This time it is centred around Al and even though I know nothing about Baseball as I am from over the pond I found the story very captivating.
But my favourite thing was that both Viv and Milo had their own side stories connected to Al's main story which I thought was nicely done.
For all the above I am giving Tryouts 4 stars and I will be continuing on with this fabulous series
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