Jackie and me : a baseball card adventure

Title
Jackie and me : a baseball card adventure

Personal Author EPSB
Dan. Gutman

Summary
With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process. Joe Stoshack has really done it this time. When a pitcher insults his Polish heritage, Joe flings his bat and prompts an on-field brawl that ends in a two-team pileup. He's suspended from Little League ... indefinitely. At school, his teacher assigns an oral report for Black History Month. The topic? An African-American who has made a significant contribution to American society. The prize for the best report is four tickets to a cool local amusement park. But Joe doesn't know where to begin. If he could just get his hands on a certain Jackie Robinson baseball card ... Fans of Dan Gutman's hit novel Honus & Me already know that Joe has the remarkable ability to travel through time -- with baseball cards! Now he's bound for Brooklyn circa 1947, to meet one of the greatest ballplayers of all time, the man single-handedly responsible for breaking "the color barrier" in the major leagues. If getting up close and personal with Jackie Robinson isn't a sure way to ace his report for Black History Month, what is? What Joe can't predict is that his journey will not only change the color of his skin for a time, it will alter his view of history -- and his definition of courage.

Other Title
Jackie & me

Year Published
1999

Series
An Avon Camelot book

Physical Description
145 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Note
This title may be found in the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Purple System Choice Library Grade 5 Level T kit.
 
Sequel to: Honus and me.

Personal Subject
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972.

Subject
Baseball cards -- Fiction.
 
Time travel -- Fiction.
 
Baseball -- Fiction.
 
Race relations -- Fiction.
 
African Americans -- Fiction.

Summary
With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process. Joe Stoshack has really done it this time. When a pitcher insults his Polish heritage, Joe flings his bat and prompts an on-field brawl that ends in a two-team pileup. He's suspended from Little League ... indefinitely. At school, his teacher assigns an oral report for Black History Month. The topic? An African-American who has made a significant contribution to American society. The prize for the best report is four tickets to a cool local amusement park. But Joe doesn't know where to begin. If he could just get his hands on a certain Jackie Robinson baseball card ... Fans of Dan Gutman's hit novel Honus & Me already know that Joe has the remarkable ability to travel through time -- with baseball cards! Now he's bound for Brooklyn circa 1947, to meet one of the greatest ballplayers of all time, the man single-handedly responsible for breaking "the color barrier" in the major leagues. If getting up close and personal with Jackie Robinson isn't a sure way to ace his report for Black History Month, what is? What Joe can't predict is that his journey will not only change the color of his skin for a time, it will alter his view of history -- and his definition of courage.

ISBN
9780380976850
 
9780380800841
 
9780613279123
 
9780756909123

Publisher
New York : Avon Books, [1999]
 
©1999


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
George P. NicholsonCL5Teacher resource31004000269964Checked out
George P. NicholsonCL5Teacher resource31004000289277Checked out