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Krensky, Stephen

Play Ball, Jackie!

32 pp. | Millbrook | March, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8225-9030-9 $16.95
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Joe Morse. Dynamic drawings of players and fans are the stars of this story about a boy who's able to attend Jackie Robinson's first Major League game only because his father's colleague doesn't want to see an African American play for the Dodgers. There's some heavy-handedness to the text, but the book provides a decent entry for discussions about prejudice.
Reviewer: Miriam Lang Budin

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