Theme: Baseball

Mexican Whiteboy

By Book Importer | Published: May 25, 2011

Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California.

Descriptors: Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, United States of America, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , » 5 Comments

Heat

By Book Importer | Published: June 25, 2010

Michael Arroyo has a dream of pitching in the Little League World Series, and a pitching arm that throws serious heat. But that firepower is nothing compared to the heat Michael faces in his day-to-day life. Newly orphaned after his father led the family’s escape from Cuba, Michael has no one to watch out for [...]

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Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

On an island called Puerto Rico a boy named Roberto Clemente dreamed of nothing but winning at baseball. With no money–but plenty of determination–Clemente practiced on muddy fields with a glove made from a coffee sack. Little League became minor league, which turned into winter league and, finally, he made it to the major leagues! [...]

Descriptors: Biography, Caribbean, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Puerto Rico » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up In Siberia

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the next five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.

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