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Genre/Form: | Fiction Juvenile works Juvenile fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter Dean Myers |
ISBN: | 0439095034 9780439095037 |
OCLC Number: | 1042236849 |
Description: | 141 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm. |
Series Title: | Dear America |
Responsibility: | by Walter Dean Myers. |
Abstract:
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.
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