(4) K-3 Illustrated by Laura Freeman. In 1947 there was "an unwritten college-football agreement that said when integrated…teams played schools in the South, they wouldn't play their black players." Respress-Churchwell tells the fictionalized (somewhat awkwardly) story of how Chester Pierce and his Harvard team broke this rule. Color-saturated digital illustrations highlight Pierce's deep-brown skin tone--along with Harvard's crimson and gold school colors and the green football fields. Bib.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz