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Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball

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By Jim O'Connor
Publisher Random House Children's Books - (Random House Books for Young Readers)
Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball
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Illus. in full color with blackandwhite photos. Covers not only the story of Robinsons prowess and his problems as the first black man to play in the major leagues, but also the story of the rise and fall of black baseball and some of its star players and managers. Nicely geared by vocabulary, sentence length, and print size to the primary grades audience.Bulletin, Center for Childrens Books.

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4572 words4,572 words
48 pages48 pages
Lexile 680LLexile 680L
Grade 4 to 8Grade 4 to 8
Published 2003Published 2003

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Book ISBN:

9780394824567

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