I Am Jackie Robinson
Ordinary People Change the World, Book 5
by Brad Meltzer
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sports and Nonfiction.
This New York Times Bestselling picture book biography series by Brad Meltzer has an inspiring message: We can all be heroes.Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. But he lived at a time before the Civil Rights Movement, when the rules weren't fair to African Americans. Even though Jackie was a great athlete, he wasn't allowed on...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Sports and Nonfiction.
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Seth Mandel
“@chrislhayes Our kids LOVE @bradmeltzer?s ?I Am? series and my daughter went through a big civil rights phase?I Am Harriet Tubman, I Am Rosa Parks, I Am Jackie Robinson. PBS has Secret Museum episodes based on them too. We also read this book on Montgomery Bus Boycott: | @chrislhayes Our kids LOVE @bradmeltzer’s “I Am” series and my daughter went through a big civil rights phase—I Am Harriet Tubman, I Am Rosa Parks, I Am Jackie Robinson. PBS has Secret Museum episodes based on them too. We also read this book on Montgomery Bus Boycott:”
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