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The scrappy Jewish kid who captivated readers in Louey Levy's Greatest Catch and Louey Levy's Perfect Pitch is now headed back to Newburgh, the city that never really left her. Before she can get home, though, she has to go through a few things: a crazy career as a journalist and labor activist, volunteering simultaneously for both Special Olympics and Planned Parenthood, becoming a mother, a failed marriage, and much more. Finally it's resili...

Louey Levy's Perfect Pitch, " the sequel to Genie Abrams's acclaimed "Louey Levy's Greatest Catch, " sees Louey through her college years -- the turbulent 1960s. Music makes that time "the best time in history to be young, " as Louey fervently believes. It is also a time of war, assassinations, the Sexual Revolution, the rise of Black Power and Women's Liberation. Yet abortion is still illegal, even in New York State -- and Louey's voice-major...

LOUEY LEVY'S GREATEST CATCH Revised Edition by Genie Abrams It's 1959 in the little city of Newburgh, New York, and all 11-year-old Louisa ("Louey") Levy wants to do is listen to rock 'n roll and play baseball with her big brother and their pals. It's an idyllic, small-town life -- until that life starts to crumble around her. In the space of just a few months, Louey's hero Buddy Holly is killed in a plane crash, her mother dies, and her fathe...