School Library JournalGr 5–8—Highly motivated KT Sutton is an eighth-grade softball sensation, but she's so self-centered that she ignores her younger brother, Max, and doesn't tolerate weakness. Her parents are overindulgent and overinvolved; their lives revolve around their daughter's games. She's not that great a student, but KT figures all she needs is to make it to the Olympics and she'll be fine. Then, during the biggest game of her career, she blacks out. When she wakes up, the world has turned topsy-turvy: school consists of exercise drills, gifted athletes are outcasts, and everyone is obsessed with after-school academics, where mathletes and chem geniuses are the stars. At home, KT's role has been reversed, too; Max, who excels at math, is the center of her parents' attention.
