The Real Me Author:Betty Miles My book is not the kind that tells "How Tomboy Mindy discovered that growing up gracefully can be as much fun as playing baseball." I don't write the way they call "bouncy" and "lighthearted" on book jackets. My book tells about the ideas and adventures of the real me, Barbara Fisher. — I have often thought how relaxing it would be to be invisibl... more »e. But when I took over my brother Richard's paper route, they said "girls can't deliver papers." And when I wanted to take tennis instead of slimnastics, they said "girls like to do graceful, feminine things." So I had to speak out