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| Author | : Angela Johnson |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2007-01-09 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 141692728X |
The story goes... Grandmama could hit the ball a mile, catch anything that was thrown, and do everything else -- just like Josh Gibson. But unfortunately, no matter how well a girl growing up in the 1940s played the game of baseball, she would have faced tremendous challenges. These challenges are not unlike those met by the legendary Josh Gibson, arguably the best Negro-League player to never make it into the majors. In a poignant tribute to anyone who's had a dream deferred, two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Angela Johnson and celebrated artist Beth Peck offer up this reminder -- that the small steps made by each of us inspire us all.
| Author | : William Brashler |
| Publisher | : Ivan R. Dee Publisher |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781566632959 |
This illuminating biography introduces an authentic American sports hero and recaptures the mood and style.
| Author | : Mark Ribowsky |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2004-10-06 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0252095820 |
It is said that Josh Gibson is the only man ever to have hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium. Some claim he hit as many as seventy-five home runs in a season. All agreed he was a frightening hitter to face. What Satchel Paige was to pitching in the Negro leagues, Gibson was to hitting: their greatest star, biggest gate attraction, and most important symbol. Though Gibson is best remembered as "the black Babe Ruth," Ruth became a beloved symbol of the national pastime, while Gibson lived a life veiled in the darkness that came both from the shadow world of the Negro leagues and from within his own tortured soul. Mark Ribowsky, the widely acclaimed biographer of Satchel Paige, pulls no punches in his portrait of this magnificent, troubled athlete. This is the most complete, thorough, and authoritative account of the life of black ball's greatest hitter, and one of its most important stars.
| Author | : Nanette Mellage |
| Publisher | : Troll Communications |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780816770090 |
The baseball feats of Josh Gibson remain largely unknown because he played at a time when baseball was segregated by race.
| Author | : Angela Johnson |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 134 |
| Release | : 2008-09-08 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1439136793 |
Twelve-year-old Mike -- short for Michaela -- loves the ocean. The sights, sounds, and smells of her coastal home are embedded in her very soul. But Michaela loves her brother, Red, even more. Then one day Red disappears. One minute he's there, the next...gone. No warning. No time to prepare. And Mike must come to terms with that loss or risk never finding comfort in what remains of the life she and her brother once shared.
| Author | : Angela Johnson |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2012-08-28 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1442417269 |
From three-time Coretta Scott King Award–winner Angela Johnson, a wrenching, honest book about surviving the unimaginable and finding a way to go on. Scotty compares herself to tofu: no flavor unless you add something. And it’s true that Scotty’s friends, Misha and Falcone, and her brother, Keone, make life delicious. But when a terrible accident occurs, Scotty feels responsible for the loss of someone she hardly knew, and the world goes wrong. She cannot tell what is a dream and what is real. Her friends are having a hard time getting through to her and her family is preoccupied with their own trauma. But the prospect of a boy, a dance, and the possibility that everything can fall back into place soon helps Scotty realize that she is capable of adding her own flavor to life. With artfully spare prose, acclaimed and award-winning author Angela Johnson explores the ramifications of unexpected death in this compelling coming-of-age story. An ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick.
| Author | : Barbara Trapido |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 395 |
| Release | : 2017-03-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1620408813 |
Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and arty. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones is providing instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there's the puzzle of lunch break. "Would you rather have a native girl or a koelie to make your sandwiches?" a first-year classmate asks. But Dinah doesn't know the answer, because it's her dad who makes her sandwiches. As the apparatus of repression rolls on, Dinah finds her own way. As we follow her journey through childhood and adolescence, we enter into one of the darker passages of twentieth-century history.
| Author | : Angela Johnson |
| Publisher | : Laurel Leaf |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : African American families |
| ISBN | : 9780679894889 |
Living in a small town in Ohio in 1975 and desperately missing her divorced father, thirteen-year-old Doreen comes to terms with disturbing changes in her family life.
| Author | : Angela Johnson |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 2010-05-11 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1439106584 |
Bobby's a classic urban teenager. He's restless. He's impulsive. But the thing that makes him different is this: He's going to be a father. His girlfriend, Nia, is pregnant, and their lives are about to change forever. Instead of spending time with friends, they'll be spending time with doctors, and next, diapers. They have options: keeping the baby, adoption. They want to do the right thing. If only it was clear what the right thing was.
| Author | : Angela Johnson |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2013-03-05 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0689873786 |
Lottie Paris goes to the library, her favorite place in the world, and makes a new friend for whom the library is also a special place. Full color.
