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She's never known her mother. Her father seems to hate her. A mediocre student and a social misfit, she's downright miserable.This is the life of Taylor Dresden, a freshman in a gritty New Jersey high school. The only pleasure she's ever had was playing baseball. But at the age of eight, she stopped playing when she overheard her dad say how embarrassed he was by her talent—that it far exceeded his sons'.As a fourteen-year-old struggling to find her true self among the ruins of her life, Taylor is commits an act of vandalism at her own school. Her guidance counselor, instead of pressing charges on the school's behalf, offers an alternate punishment—join the baseball team.Though Taylor is not a fairy-tale heroine, she gradually comes to know that no matter how many curves life throws at her, she's quite capable of throwing them right back.Pages of Thrown a Curve :