Down to the Last Out: The Journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948

Down to the Last Out: The Journal of Biddy Owens, the Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0545530512

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Newbery and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Walter Dean Myers's baseball story THE JOURNAL OF BIDDY OWENS is now available in paperback, with an exciting repackaging!Seventeen-year-old Biddy Owens is part of the Birmingham Black Barons baseball team and dreams of becoming a major league baseball player. However, in 1948 most black players can only play for the Negro Leagues. Jackie Robinson has just recently integrated and is playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, but the white owners are reluctant to add too many blacks to their rosters. The Birmingham Black Barons are some of the best players in the league. But as they travel around playing ball, Biddy realizes that not everyone is ready for blacks and whites to play on the same team. Can Biddy prove he's good enough to be part of the game his loves, no matter what color his skin is?


The Journal of Biddy Owens

The Journal of Biddy Owens

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 9780329978242

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Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.


Adventure Education for the Classroom Community

Adventure Education for the Classroom Community

Author: Ambrose Panico

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2011-11-02

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1936765748

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Empower your students instead of coercing them through punishments and external rewards. Engaged by the activities in this character education curriculum, students will choose responsible behavior. Help your students master communication skills, create plans, make decisions, solve problems, and resolve conflicts. Your efforts will build classroom communities that support character development, individual and social responsibility, and academic excellence.


The Big Book of Teen Reading Lists

The Big Book of Teen Reading Lists

Author: Nancy J. Keane

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2006-08-30

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0313090726

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Use these 100 handy reproducible book lists to instantly create handouts for teen readers and teachers, add to your newsletter, or post on your web site or bulletin board. Based on the most common needs of educators and librarians who work with teen readers, these lists focus on new titles and classics that are still in print and readily available for purchase. Fiction and nonfiction titles for ages 13-18 are covered. Bibliographic information and a brief description are given for each title. A dozen bookmarks are also included. This is a great time-saving tool and a good source for finding extended reading lists and read-alikes! Looking for humorous novels for teen readers? A fast-paced sports novel for a reluctant reader? Biographies to use in history class? You'll find these lists and more in this treasury of great reading lists. This versatile guide provides one-page reproducible book lists and bookmarks for: books about self (e.g., coming-of-age, perfectionism, gangs; genre literature (e.g., fantasy, romance, historical fiction); themes (e.g., extreme sports, vampires, peace; settings (e.g., Ellis Island, Dust Bowl, WWII); character studies (e.g., adventure with female protagonist, boy bonding books, fantasy heroes); and read-alikes (for bookmarks). More than 100 reproducible lists of books for ages 13-18 (junior/senior high) focus on new titles and classics that are still in print and readily available for purchase. Bibliographic information and a brief description are given for each title.


What Do Children and Young Adults Read Next?

What Do Children and Young Adults Read Next?

Author: Janis Ansell

Publisher: Gale Cengage

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 9780787648008

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Lists books by subject and title and recommends what book children and young adults should read next based on their previous likes and dislikes.


Best Friends for Never

Best Friends for Never

Author: Adrienne Maria Vrettos

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0545561523

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When a friendship pact goes magically awry, eleven-year-old Hattie must figure out how to make amends. After Hattie and her three best friends watch one of their classmates publicly defriended in the school cafeteria, they make a loyalty pact promising never to mistreat each other. But after Hattie unwittingly breaks the pact, her friends begin ignoring her. In fact, they literally don't even know who she is anymore! Can Hattie figure out how to break the spell and make things right again?Acclaimed author Adrienne Vrettos brings poignancy and gentle humor to this magical story of friendship and loyalty.


The Journal of Biddy Owens

The Journal of Biddy Owens

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780439445726

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A fictionalized account of a young Afro-American lad who joined a baseball league in 1940's Alabama.


Our Castle by the Sea

Our Castle by the Sea

Author: Lucy Strange

Publisher: Chicken House

Published: 2019-01-03

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1911490524

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England is at war. Growing up in a lighthouse, eleven-year old Pet's world has been one of storms, secret tunnels and stories about sea monsters. But now the clifftops are a terrifying battleground, and her family is torn apart ...


The Glory Field

The Glory Field

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1338740350

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An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover. "Those shackles didn't rob us of being black, son, they robbed us of being human." This is the story of one family. A family whose history saw its first ancestor captured, shackled, and brought to this country from Africa. A family who can still see remnants of the shackles that held some of its members captive -- even today. It is a story of pride, determination, struggle, and love. And of the piece of the land that holds them together throughout it all.