Rebecca Caudill 2023

Interest Level:  Grades 6 to 8

Book Talk

Baseball-obsessed Silas, a 6th-grader, begins a journey to self-acceptance with a school presentation on Glenn Burke, the 1970s baseball player who invented the high-five, who was gay, and whose real-life story did not have a happy ending. Soon Silas is coming out to his best friend, Zoey, and to his favorite baseball coach. Things get complicated when a couple of his teammates use "gay" as an insult, and he finds himself lying about Zoey being his girlfriend.