Jackie Robinson

By Manfred Weidhorn

Faced with enormous odds, Jack Roosevelt Robinson uses his overwhelming athletic ability and his extraordinary courage to conquer the ingrained prejudice and hostility of organized baseball, leading... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689316445
• ISBN13: 9780689316449
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

a sensitive and penetrating look at Jackie Robinson

Weidhorn's writing is beautiful and his look at Jackie Robinson shows the trials he underwent and the resolve which took him through. This book cannot fail to move and inspire as well as inform and teach. No kid should miss it.