Not Your Ordinary Summer

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Fourteen-year-old </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kylah Hendricks</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>has already found her first love. The softball fields. Introduced to the sport by her late mother in early elementary school Kylah has dreamed of participating in the Senior League World Series on ESPN. </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>T</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>his summer is her chance</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> t</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>o be the first Black girl in the world to win the international championship as the lead pitcher.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>However </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kylah jeopardizes this opportunity through a number of serious mistakes</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Plagued</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> by </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>memorie</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>s of her deceased p</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>arents</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Kylah struggles to keep her emotions in check on and off the softball field while the truth of her family's history is kept secret by her older brother Jarell. Angered by the lack of answers and deeply resistant to forgiveness Kylah engages in destructive behavior at home and at school </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>affecting</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> her performance in the pitcher's circle. Her advocates</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>try to support her with accountability measures but their efforts often fall short.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Kylah must decide if she will allow</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> these</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> circumstances to break or mold her into the young woman she's destined to be: </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a resilient girl who breaks generational trauma </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>through quality relationships</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> compassion while aiming to be a world champion to make her mother proud and overcome her family's tumultuous past.</span></p>