Fast Pitch: Show what you know!

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Across
  1. 1. The main character of the realistic fiction novel, Fast Pitch
  2. 3. To judge or mistreat someone based on their race
  3. 11. Played on the Brooklyn Dodgers; the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball
  4. 12. "The genre of Fast Pitch is ________________________ meaning the story if fictional, but it is possible to happen in real-life".
  5. 14. A type of figurative language where the writer or reader gives human traits to something that is not alive
  6. 15. To be clear-headed and aware of what is happening around you
  7. 16. A famous pitcher who played in the Negro Leagues and later in the Major Leagues
Down
  1. 2. The author of Fast Pitch
  2. 4. Similar to baseball (or "batball"), this is the sport played by many of our characters
  3. 5. The main setting of the novel Fast Pitch
  4. 6. Elder to the main character in Fast Pitch; lost his change to play professional baseball because he was framed for a crime he did not commit
  5. 7. The main character's uncle who trusts her to solve a mystery involving another family member
  6. 8. Also known as "William", this our main character's best friend and crush
  7. 9. A type of figurative language where the writer or speaker exaggerates
  8. 10. A softball team in Atlanta, Georgia that is named after the Phoenix, a mythical bird that rises from flames
  9. 13. Another novel by author Nic Stone