These girls also have messy friendships - friendships ending, wary truces, slowly growing new friendships - and, in Bennett's and Teesha's cases, messy relationships with their mothers who are portrayed as adults with goals and problems of their own rather than as mere antagonists. The unapologetic attitude of these athletes, even as they make mistakes and work to right their errors, is a strong point. It is a pleasant change to read about girls who are competitive, who talk smack, who have tempers, who take being athletes seriously, who have confidence in their prowess, who aim for sports scholarships and care about sports. Whether main or side characters, the girls on the team have complex emotions they are not divided into nice or evil, but are taken seriously as human beings. Nicely told, believable characters, and interesting developments that explore friendships and what it means to win and lose." - Jury for the 2016 Bolen Books Children's Book Prize "Relationships between the girls on the team form the core of the story.
"None of the jurors were basketball fans, but they found it impossible not to respond to the passion for the game that infuses this intelligent coming-of-age novel.
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