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Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson: Against the Odds by Robert Burleigh

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3.0

The text of this story builds to match the events so that I was turning the pages more quickly as Jackie was running the bases. This could be read to lower elementary students, as long as some background on baseball was provided, or to upper elementary and middle school students because each page has several paragrahs about Robinson and baseball in the 1940's written in smaller font on images of baseball cards. The concept is executed well and will appeal to kids who are interested in sports and issues of justice.
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