Books like The daffodils by Christi Killien

A fifth‑grade girl with cerebral palsy enrolls in a regular classroom, hoping for a miracle to ease her struggles and fit in with her peers.

A middle‑school girl discovers that following her passions—both on the softball field and in the kitchen—makes life taste sweeter and friendships stronger.

When a new, accident-prone softball coach arrives at Bailey School, a group of kids suspects he might be a mummy—uncovering hilarious adventures as they try to prove his true identity.

Ellie joins a softball team and discovers the game is tougher than it looks. When she finds an injured baby deer during a woods search, she learns that teamwork and caring go far beyond the field.

Twelve‑year‑old Artie, grieving his brother’s suicide, channels his nascent law ambition into defending an unpopular classmate he believes shares his brother’s fate.

Thirteen‑year‑old Joelle, a talented baseball player, must fight town rules when she moves to a new school where girls can only play softball, creating her own all‑girl baseball league.

"Kenyon's last collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, remains a phenomenon: a best-seller that testifies to the impact Kenyon has had on the poetic landscape."--BOOK JACKET. "A Hundred White Daffodils is a companion volume that sheds illumination on a poet, and a woman, of great presence. It offers glimpses into a life cut too short and traces the influences that created Kenyon's poetic voice. The book includes Kenyon's translations of the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, and insights into how Kenyon chose her as a muse. It presents a variety of Kenyon's prose pieces about the writing life, her spiritual life, her country community, her gardens - themes that readers will well remember from her poems. Transcripts of interviews provide further understanding as Kenyon faces her struggle with depression and the losses wrought by illness. Finally, there is an unfinished, visionary poem that makes one wonder what might have been if Kenyon had been given the chance to create more poetry."--BOOK JACKET.

A girl on a slave ship in Istanbul, discovering life as a palace harem slave in the Tulip Period of 1720s Turkey

In a post‑World War II Oregon town, 21 sixth‑grade girls recount an annual softball game that exposes deep racial prejudice when a Japanese‑American newcomer, Aki, faces hostility amid lingering war memories.

A chilling story of a camp where everything seems to be a nightmare, from the counselors' obsession with winning to the rumbling ground at night.

Three teenage sisters in Philadelphia must grapple with their father's sudden death, confronting grief, friendship, and their own futures as they navigate the challenges of adolescence and family dynamics.

A young girl finds a magical seed in the middle of a city and grows a flower garden with the help of her siblings and a mysterious teapot.

When her dad is deployed and softball teams are canceled, teenage Gabby disguises herself as a boy to join a boys’ baseball team—while secretly entering a beauty pageant her mom loves—and must balance fastballs with pageant walk‑rights.