For a school report, Stosh goes back to 1947 to the day when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's 60-year-old color barrier. Along the way, he gets on the wrong side of the Dodgers' psycho bat boy and almost doesn't make it back home.---from the publisher
160 pages 978-0380800841 Ages 9-13
Keywords: time travel, historical fiction, African American, diversity, diverse books, baseball, 20th century, history, sports, part of a series, 9 year old, 10 year old, 11 year old, 12 year old, school project, prejudice, racism
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Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoshack has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society. Unlike every other kid in his class, Joe has a special talent: with the help of old baseball cards, he can travel through time. So, for his report, Joe decides to go back to meet one of the greatest baseball players ever, Jackie Robinson, to find out what it was like to be the man who broke baseball's color barrier. Joe plans on writing a prize-winning report. But he doesn't plan on a trip that will for a short time change the color of his skin—and forever change his view of history and his definition of courage.
With historical photos and back matter to separate the facts from the fiction, New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman takes readers on a page-turning trip through baseball’s past.---from the publisher
