Before Jackie Contributor(s): Harper, Larry (Author) |
|
ISBN: 0692159347 ISBN-13: 9780692159347 Publisher: Good Tidings Foundation OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: 813.54 |
LCCN: 2019913997 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.69 lbs) 148 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In this heartwarming novel, meticulously researched and based on true stories, a group of nine kids in post-World War II California are brought together by baseball. Free of adult prejudices and united by their love of the game, the kids overcome all obstacles--poverty, racism, physical disability--to become a vision of America's joyous, diverse future.This is an uplifting story with a twist, where the friends, who call themselves The Nine, find themselves on a quest to dig up a communal grave in order to right a wrong. Through their adventures, friends are loyal above all else--to each other. to the team of Negro League players who befriends them, to their teacher, Ms. O'Doul, and to the great American pastime of baseball that makes all things possible. |