Mayfield Crossing
By: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson ; illustrated by Leonard Jenkins
Contributors: Jenkins, Leonard, ill
Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780698119307
Subjects: Race relations; Juvenile fiction; Prejudices; Fiction; Baseball; Baseball stories; Schools; Juvenile literature
Description: When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for drawing people together.