Jackie and me : a baseball card adventure / Dan Gutman
| Author(s): | Gutman, Dan |
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| Subjects: | Time travel--Fiction Baseball--Fiction Race relations--Fiction Baseball cards--Fiction African Americans--Fiction Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972--Juvenile fiction Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972--Fiction |
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| Material Type: | Manuscript language material -- Monograph |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Juvenile, Pre-adolescent (9-13 years old) |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Published: | New York : Avon Books, c1999 |
| Series: | Avon Camelot book |
| LC Classification: | P, PZ |
| Notes: | LCCN: 98053347 ISBN: 0380976854 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN: 9780380976850 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN: 0380800845 (pbk.) ISBN: 9780380800841 (pbk.) Sequel to: Honus and me Summary: With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process. Joe Stoshack has really done it this time. When a pitcher insults his Polish heritage, Joe flings his bat and prompts an on-field brawl that ends in a two-team pileup. He's suspended from Little League...indefinitely. At school, his teacher assigns an oral report for Black History Month. The topic? An African-American who has made a significant contribution to American society. The prize for the best report is four tickets to a cool local amusement park. But Joe doesn't know where to begin. If he could just get his hands on a certain Jackie Robinson baseball card... Fans of Dan Gutman's hit novel Honus & Me already know that Joe has the remarkable ability to travel through time -- with baseball cards! Now he's bound for Brooklyn circa 1947, to meet one of the greatest ballplayers of all time, the man single-handedly responsible for breaking "the color barrier" in the major leagues. If getting up close and personal with Jackie Robinson isn't a sure way to ace his report for Black History Month, what is? What Joe can't predict is that his journey will not only change the color of his skin for a time, it will alter his view of history -- and his definition of courage IMC copy purchased with monies from the Gretchen Hill Children's Literature Reading Area Fund |
| Physical Description: | 145 p. : ill. ; 22 cm |
| Donation Info: | Donor : Hill, Gretchen |
| OCLC Number: | 40473772 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0380976854 9780380976850 0380800845 9780380800841 |