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Black star / Kwame Alexander.
12-year old Charley Cuffey is many things: a granddaughter, a best friend, and probably the best pitcher in all of Lee's Mill. Set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball, Charley doesn't need reminders from her best friend Cool Willie Green to know that she has lofty dreams for a Black girl in the American South. Even so, Nana Kofi's thrilling stories about courageous ancestors and epic journeys make it impossible not to dream big. She knows he has so many more to tell, but according to her parents, she isn't old enough to know about certain things like what happened to Booker Preston that one night in Great Bridge and why she can never play on the brand-new real deal baseball field on the other side of town. When Charley challenges a neighborhood bully to a game at the church picnic, she knows she can win, even with her ragtag team. But when the picnic spills over onto their ball field, she makes a fateful decision. A child cannot protect herself if she does not know her history, and Charley's choice brings consequences she never could have imagined.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316442596 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 372 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024.
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| Subject: | Baseball > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Race relations > Juvenile fiction. United States > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction. |
| Genre: | Novels in verse. Historical fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
A Black girl in the American South, 12-year-old Charley Cuffey is determined to become the first female pitcher to play professional ball and challenges a neighborhood bully to a game that leads to a fateful decision with far-reaching consequences. Simultaneous eBook. - Baker & Taylor
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. - Grand Central Pub
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
You canât protect her from knowing. The truth is all we have.
The thrilling second book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Door of No Return trilogy stars Kofiâs granddaughter, Charley, whoâs set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball but who soon has to contend with the tensions about to boil over in her segregated town.
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12-year old Charley Cuffey is many things: a granddaughter, a best friend, and probably the best pitcher in all of Leeâs Mill. Set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball, Charley doesn't need reminders from her best friend Cool Willie Green to know that she has lofty dreams for a Black girl in the American South.
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Even so, Nana Kofi's thrilling stories about courageous ancestors and epic journeys make it impossible not to dream big. She knows he has so many more to tell, but according to her parents, she isn't old enough to know about certain things like what happened to Booker Preston that one night in Great Bridge and why she can never play on the brand-new real deal baseball field on the other side of town.
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When Charley challenges a neighborhood bully to a game at the church picnic, she knows she can win, even with her ragtag team. But when the picnic spills over onto their ball field, she makes a fateful decision.
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A child cannot protect herself if she does not know her history, and Charley's choice brings consequences she never could have imagined.
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In this riveting second book of the Door of No Return trilogy, set during the turbulent segregation era, and the beginning of The Great Migration, Kwame Alexander weaves a spellbinding story of struggle, determination, and the unflappable faith of an American family. - HARPERCOLL
The riveting second book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Door of No Return trilogy stars Kofiâs granddaughter, Charley, whoâs set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball but who soon has to contend with the tensions about to boil over in her segregated town.
You canât protect her from knowing. The truth is all we have.
Â
12-year old Charley Cuffey is many things: a granddaughter, a best friend, and probably the best pitcher in all of Leeâs Mill. Set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball, Charley doesn't need reminders from her best friend Cool Willie Green to know that she has lofty dreams for a Black girl in the American South.
Â
Even so, Nana Kofi's thrilling stories about courageous ancestors and epic journeys make it impossible not to dream big. She knows he has so many more to tell, but according to her parents, she isn't old enough to know about certain things like what happened to Booker Preston that one night in Great Bridge and why she can never play on the brand-new real deal baseball field on the other side of town.
Â
When Charley challenges a neighborhood bully to a game at the church picnic, she knows she can win, even with her ragtag team. But when the picnic spills over onto their ball field, she makes a fateful decision.
Â
A child cannot protect herself if she does not know her history, and Charley's choice brings consequences she never could have imagined.
Â
In this thrilling second book of the Door of No Return trilogy, set during the turbulent segregation era, and the beginning of The Great Migration, Kwame Alexander weaves a spellbinding story of struggle, determination, and the unflappable faith of an American family.
