Ferris Jessica Lanan Baseball is Elena Rueda’s entire

Baseball is Elena Rueda’s entire life: She may be the only girl on her team

Eisner-award winning author and illustrator

If we don’t acknowledge our own heartache

Editor's Choice)

Sky Patel-Baum

Ferris Jessica Lanan Baseball is Elena Rueda’s entireThe beloved author of Because of Winn Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother, and growing up. Its the summer before fifth grade, and for Ferris Wilkey, it is a summer of sheer pandemonium: Her little sister, Pinky, has vowed to become an outlaw. Uncle Ted has left Aunt Shirley and, to Ferriss mothers chagrin, is holed up in the Wilkey basement to paint a history of the world. And