Name: Warrior on the Mound
Author: Headen, Sandra W
ISBN: [978-0-8234-5378-8,0-8234-5378-2]

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Warrior on the Mound

Author: Headen, Sandra W

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Follett Number: 2077DD1
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Holiday House, 2024
Format: 194 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-8234-5378-8
ISBN-10: 0-8234-5378-2
LCCN: 2023-023364
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

Subjects:

Baseball Fiction

Historical Fiction

Little League Baseball Fiction

North Carolina History 20th Century Fiction

Race Relations Fiction

Sports Fiction

In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.

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Narrated by twelve-year-old Cato, this intense and evocative story of racial unrest in prewar North Carolina ends with a dramatic match between white and Black little league teams. 1935. Twelve-year-old Cato wants nothing more than to play baseball, perfect his pitch, and meet Mr. Satchel Paige--the best pitcher in Negro League baseball. But when he and his teammates "trespass" on their town's whites-only baseball field for a practice, the resulting racial outrage burns like a brushfire through the entire community, threatening Cato, his family, and every one of his friends. There's only one way this can end without violence: It has to be settled on the mound, between the white team and the Black. Winner takes all. Written in first person with a rich, convincing voice, Warrior on the Mound is about the experience of segregation; about the tinderbox environment of the prewar South; about having a dream; about injustice, and, finally, about dialogue. Back matter includes an author's note, historical background, biographical information about Negro League players, and more. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection One of Evanston Public Library's 101 Great Books for Kids "A HOME RUN."--School Library Journal, starred review "NOT TO BE MISSED."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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