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Written in the first person with short essays interspersed between chapters. Eleven year old Barbara wants to take over her brother's paper route, but the circulation manager tells her it's against the rules for girls to have paper routes.
She wants to take tennis in PE but one of the teachers tells her that it's only for boys. She has to take "slimnastics" and makes a rude comment about how she needs it.
She befriends Arlene, the only black girl in the neighborhood/school.
An interesting trip down memory lane for me as I enjoyed reading Barbara's tale of her fight for equal rights in her own little world.
This book was written in 1974 and feels like my own childhood. There were no girls teams for some of the sports I liked. There was one black girl in our school who fascinated me. ( )