Jackie Robinson: Baseball Legend |
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| Authors: | Tia Rodriguez |
| Genres: | African American Culture |
| Topics: | Sports, African American History/Interest |
| Lexile: | 850, |
| Publisher: | Rosen Publishing |
| ISBN: | 9781477725719, |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 24, |
Synopsis: "Jackie Robinson: Baseball Legend" is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for the English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.8 and Literacy.L.3.6. Readers learn about the life of African-American baseball player Jackie Robinson through full-page photographs and narrative nonfiction text. A timeline of Robinson's life is included. This book should be paired with “Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers" (9781477726310) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.
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