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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 28 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Terry Bregy. |
| Summary |
Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can't get: to make the local baseball team and to have life return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War. When Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who quietly and mysteriously arrives in Charlie's small Iowa town, the two strike up a friendship. Luther is a former Negro Baseball League player, and he agrees to coach Charlie's fledgling neighborhood baseball team. But many of the town's white residents are suspicious of Luther because of his skin color. And when Charlie inadvertently reveals a secret of Luther's, violence erupts in the town, and both Luther and Charlie are drawn into serious danger. Authors Carol Gorman and Ron J. Findley have created two highly memorable, emotionally complex characters in this dramatic story set in the days of the Negro Leagues that illustrates the meanings of friendship, prejudice, and heroism. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Baseball stories.
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Coaching (Athletics) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.
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African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction.
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Iowa -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
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Baseball -- Fiction.
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Coaching (Athletics) -- Fiction.
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Prejudices -- Fiction.
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African Americans -- Fiction.
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Single-parent families -- Fiction.
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Iowa -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Findlay, Ron J.
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Bregy, Terry.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982623562 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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198262356X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12259184 |
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