Derrick Barnes
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Let's hear it for everything that makes you the amazing, awesome, inspiring kid that you are... Your curiosity and creativity. Your bravery and kindness. Your sense of humor and fun. Your ability to get up again when you get knocked down. Your way of helping others. Yeah--you are all that and more! You are every good thing that makes the world go round. So go ahead and show us your magnificence--all the things that make you, you." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrate the unheralded people and stories that helped shape the game of baseball!
Meet unsung pioneers, like John “Bud” Fowler, William Edward White, and brothers Moses Fleetwood Walker and Weld Walker, four African Americans who integrated white teams decades before Jackie Robinson.
Discover unforgettable moments, like the time a 17-year old girl named Jackie Mtchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
Marvel...
Meet unsung pioneers, like John “Bud” Fowler, William Edward White, and brothers Moses Fleetwood Walker and Weld Walker, four African Americans who integrated white teams decades before Jackie Robinson.
Discover unforgettable moments, like the time a 17-year old girl named Jackie Mtchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
Marvel...
Author
Series
Ruby and the Booker Boys volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Hope Road Academy holds its annual animal trivia contest, Ruby represents the third grade and competes against two of her older brothers.
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Let's hear it for everything that makes you the amazing, awesome, inspiring kid that you are... Your curiosity and creativity. Your bravery and kindness. Your sense of humor and fun. Your ability to get up again when you get knocked down. Your way of helping others. Yeah--you are all that and more! You are every good thing that makes the world go round. So go ahead and show us your magnificence--all the things that make you, you." --
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the unheralded people and stories that helped shape the game of baseball! Meet unsung pioneers, like John "Bud" Fowler, William Edward White, and brothers Moses Fleetwood Walker and Weld Walker, four African Americans who integrated white teams decades before Jackie Robinson. Discover unforgettable moments, like the time a 17-year old girl named Jackie Mtchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Marvel at records. Did you know that Japanese...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans....
Author
Series
Ruby and the Booker boys volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ruby wants to get back at her brother Roosevelt because he played tricks on her and her friends at her last slumber party.
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the 2023 YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
A Coretta Scott King Award Author and Illustrator Honor Book
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
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