From: Brenda_Bowen at prenhall.com <Brenda_Bowen>
Date: 12 Nov 1998 09:24:46 -0500

Eliza Bleich comments:
     
     "What I found difficult to remember was which team each girl belonged
     to. At first I kept flipping back and forth to look through the
     roster, but after about half way through the novel it just didn't
     matter any more. It really wasn't about the teams it was about the
     girls and their experience."
     
     In a book with multiple points of view, it is not always the characters
     who are the protagonists. In the case of BAT 6, I think of the
     community itself as the "character" that grows and changes. Seen that
     way, each voice is a refraction of the two towns.
     
     Brenda Bowen
     Simon & Schuster
Received on Thu 12 Nov 1998 08:24:46 AM CST