{"product_id":"b0hd89gkfy","title":"She Found a Way: 15 True Softball Stories for Girls: Real Players, Real Comebacks, and the Mental Game","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe quiet ride home after the bad game.  The strikeout she can't stop replaying. The error in the third inning that followed her into the car, and into her head for the rest of the night. She used to love softball. Now she says I'm fine with her earbuds in, and last week she told you she doesn't want to go to practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou've tried the pep talks. You've tried you'll get 'em next time. You even bought a mental toughness journal and she did two pages and quit, because it was the same questions every day, written for teenagers. You don't need another lecture for her. You need something she'll actually read. On her own. In her own sport.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInside, your daughter will find: Her sport, finally.  Every one of the 15 stories is softball: the diamond, the circle, the gear she knows. No flipping past chapters about other sports. She won't put it down on page three. Heroines she can name at dinner.  Real comebacks, real outcomes, including the player who showed up anyway even when she lost. She'll tell you about Cat Osterman before you've even asked. A book she picks up alone.  Chapters short enough to finish in one sitting, at a true 8-12 reading level, written to be hers. No parent required to operate it, no homework feel. The mental game, shown not preached.  She learns to flush a bad pitch from a story, not a lecture. No moral of the story boxes: it sticks because she discovers it herself. Something to do, not just read.  After every story: a Real-Talk Box, a Try-It Drill she can bring to practice this week, and one Huddle Up question, the kind that turns a quiet car ride into a real conversation. 178 pages of real book, zero filler.  No lined sheets, no repeated prompts, no coloring pages. Plus a Softball Dictionary, Game Ready Checklist, Season Progress Tracker, and a Team Talk Guide for coaches and parents, free with the QR code inside the book.\u003cbr\u003e\nShe Found a Way is the true-story collection written for girls who play softball.  Fifteen real comebacks (from Joan Joyce and Cat Osterman to Jocelyn Alo, Odicci Alexander, and Yukiko Ueno), each one someone who lost their confidence and came back. Pitchers, catchers, shortstops, underdogs, five countries. Real people she can actually name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd yes, it's all true.  Every stat fact-checked twice. Every quote attributed to the source it came from. Every story ends the way it really ended, including the one that ends in defeat, because she showed up anyway is a lesson too. No agenda, no filler.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePicture next season.  She's in bed with the book, on her own, because she wanted to. She comes downstairs for water and says, Mom, did you know Cat Osterman came back at 38? She's never said an athlete's name to you before. And after the next bad game, when the car is quiet, she's the one who breaks the silence, with her own words for bouncing back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat's what this book delivers: not inspiration that fades by Monday, but a girl who wants to play again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52819492503768,"sku":"YSL34121","price":5.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/71a2hdPgSuL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793090311","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b0hd89gkfy","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}