Product Description

MADISON IS NOT your average 12-year-old girl from Michigan in 1980. She doesn’t use lipgloss, but she loves to play sports, and joins baseball for the summer—the first girl in Southern Michigan to play on a boys’ team. The press call her a star and a trailblazer, but Madison just wants to play ball. Who knew it would be so much pressure? Crowds flock to the games. Her team will win the championship—if she can keep up her pitching streak. Meanwhile, she’s got a crush on a fellow player, her best friend abandons her for the popular girls, the “O” on her Hinton’s uniform forms a bulls-eye over her left breast, and the boy she punched on the last day of school plans to bean her in the championship game.

Product Details

• Published on: 2008-05-13
• Released on: 2008-05-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

About the Author
Karen Day grew up in Indiana and now lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with her husband and three children. Her love of reading, writing, and literature has taken her through careers in journalism and teaching. She is the author of Tall Tales. You can reach her at: www.klday.com.

Customer Reviews

Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Madison is one stressed out twelve-year-old.

This summer will be her first playing baseball for the town league. That may not be such a big deal if she wasn't the first girl in the town to do it.

Madison is really good at baseball and loves to play it because it's fun. However, after the first few games, the fun part becomes harder and harder to find. The crowds of people coming to watch the games get bigger and there are articles in the newspaper calling her names like "trailblazer."

All of the attention is making Madison nervous, and since she's in a fight with her best friend, Sara, she has no one she can talk to about it. Well, except for the ex-rockstar who's staying next door.

NO CREAM PUFFS is a great coming-of-age tale that young girls will love. Karen Day knows exactly what girls are going through and how to get the message through that you're not alone.

Reviewed by: Michaela Pallante aka "Mickey"