Stumptown kid
By: written by Carol Gorman and Ron J. Findley.
Contributors: Findley, Ron J.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Peachtree
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Atlanta, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Baseball -- Fiction; Coaching (Athletics) -- Fiction; Prejudices -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Single-parent families -- Fiction; Iowa -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.