Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545530512
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
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Newbery and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Walter Dean Myers's baseball story THE JOURNAL OF BIDDY OWENS is now available in paperback, with an exciting repackaging!Seventeen-year-old Biddy Owens is part of the Birmingham Black Barons baseball team and dreams of becoming a major league baseball player. However, in 1948 most black players can only play for the Negro Leagues. Jackie Robinson has just recently integrated and is playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, but the white owners are reluctant to add too many blacks to their rosters. The Birmingham Black Barons are some of the best players in the league. But as they travel around playing ball, Biddy realizes that not everyone is ready for blacks and whites to play on the same team. Can Biddy prove he's good enough to be part of the game his loves, no matter what color his skin is?
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ISBN: 9781451799262
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Author: Walter Dean Myers
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ISBN: 9780329978242
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
Author: Walter Dean Myers
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ISBN: 9780439445726
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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A fictionalized account of a young Afro-American lad who joined a baseball league in 1940's Alabama.
Author: Walter Dean Myers
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ISBN: 9781627650328
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Languages : en
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Biddy's journal of his year with the Birmingham Black Barons affords a unique perspective on a segregated America.
Author: Ambrose Panico
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
ISBN: 1936765748
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Empower your students instead of coercing them through punishments and external rewards. Engaged by the activities in this character education curriculum, students will choose responsible behavior. Help your students master communication skills, create plans, make decisions, solve problems, and resolve conflicts. Your efforts will build classroom communities that support character development, individual and social responsibility, and academic excellence.
Author: Nancy J. Keane
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313090726
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Use these 100 handy reproducible book lists to instantly create handouts for teen readers and teachers, add to your newsletter, or post on your web site or bulletin board. Based on the most common needs of educators and librarians who work with teen readers, these lists focus on new titles and classics that are still in print and readily available for purchase. Fiction and nonfiction titles for ages 13-18 are covered. Bibliographic information and a brief description are given for each title. A dozen bookmarks are also included. This is a great time-saving tool and a good source for finding extended reading lists and read-alikes! Looking for humorous novels for teen readers? A fast-paced sports novel for a reluctant reader? Biographies to use in history class? You'll find these lists and more in this treasury of great reading lists. This versatile guide provides one-page reproducible book lists and bookmarks for: books about self (e.g., coming-of-age, perfectionism, gangs; genre literature (e.g., fantasy, romance, historical fiction); themes (e.g., extreme sports, vampires, peace; settings (e.g., Ellis Island, Dust Bowl, WWII); character studies (e.g., adventure with female protagonist, boy bonding books, fantasy heroes); and read-alikes (for bookmarks). More than 100 reproducible lists of books for ages 13-18 (junior/senior high) focus on new titles and classics that are still in print and readily available for purchase. Bibliographic information and a brief description are given for each title.
Author: Janis Ansell
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780787648008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Lists books by subject and title and recommends what book children and young adults should read next based on their previous likes and dislikes.
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590458986
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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ALA best book for young adults, This is the true story of one family, captured, shackled and brought to this country from Africa.
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338145436
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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“Captures the excitement that Ali created in a generation of young African Americans, who found in the brash, young boxer a new kind of hero.” —Booklist Includes photos From his childhood in the segregated South to his final fight with Parkinson’s disease, Muhammad Ali never backed down. He was banned from boxing during his prime because he refused to fight in Vietnam. He became a symbol of the antiwar movement—and a defender of civil rights. As “The Greatest,” he was a boxer of undeniable talent and courage. He took the world by storm—only Ali could “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” From a New York Times–bestselling author and winner of numerous awards—including the Michael L. Printz Award, Newbery Honors, a Caldecott Honor and five Coretta Scott King awards—this is an inspiring biography of Ali, Olympic gold medalist, former heavyweight champion, and one of the most influential people of all time. “Myers interweaves fight sequences with the boxer’s life story and the political events and issues of the day. He doesn’t shy away from reporting on the brutality of the sport and documents the toll it has taken on its many stars . . . Myers’s writing flows while describing the boxing action and the legend’s larger-than-life story.” —School Library Journal
