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Black Star (Door of No Return)

Author: Alexander, Kwame

Follett Number: 2615UE5
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2024
Format: 372 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN-13: 978-0-316-44259-6
ISBN-10: 0-316-44259-3
LCCN: 2023-058957
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:
African Americans Fiction
Baseball Fiction
Historical Fiction
Novels in Verse
Race Relations Fiction
Sports Fiction
United States History 20th Century Fiction
Twelve-year old Black girl Charley, who dreams of becoming the first professional female pitcher, must navigate adolescence during the turbulent segregation era and the beginning of the Great Migration.

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