Jackie and me
Subtitle: a very special friendship
By: written by Tania Grossinger ; illustrated by Charles George Esperanza
Contributors: Esperanza, Charles George, illustrator
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781620876831
Subjects: Hotels, motels; Juvenile fiction; African Americans; Friendship; Fiction
Description: Aged thirteen in 1951, Tania feels like an outsider at her cousins' hotel but guest Jackie Robinson invites her to play ping pong with him, which is the start of a friendship that lasts until the baseball legend's death in 1972.