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Meltzer, Brad

I Am Jackie Robinson

(3) K-3 Ordinary People Change the World series. Illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos. In this entertaining picture-book biography, a chatty first-person narration relates events, both traumatic and triumphant, in the life of the first African American player in all-white Major League Baseball. Comic strip–style illustrations extend the story and add to the book's reluctant- and struggling-reader appeal. Archival photographs are included on the end pages. Reading list, timeline. Bib.

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