Title: Jackie and me
Subtitle: a baseball card adventure
Description: Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoscack has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society. Unlike every other kid in his class, Joe has a special talent: with the help of old baseball cards, he can travel through time. So for his report, Joe decides to go back to meet one of the greatest baseball players ever, Jackie Robinson, to find out what it was like to be the man who broke baseball's color barrier. Joe plans on writing a prize-winning report. But he doesn't plan on a trip that will for a short time change the color of his skin -- and forever change his view of  history and his definition of01-02 Golden Sower Award Masterlist (YA Cat.) and 00 Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Book Award (Intermed. Cat.)Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoshack has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society.  Unlike every other kid in his class, Joe has a special talent: with the help of old baseball cards, he can travel through time.  So for his report, Joe decides to go back to meet one of the greatest baseball players ever, Jackie Robinson, to find out what it was like to be the man who broke baseball's color barrier.  Joe plans on writing a prize-winning report.  But he doesn't plan on a trip that will for a short time change the color of his skin--and forever change his view of history and his definition of courage.
Subjects: African Americans, African Americans in fiction, Baseball, Baseball cards, Baseball cards in fiction, Baseball in fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Race relations, Race relations in fiction, Robinson, Jackie, in fiction, Time travel, Time travel in fiction, Children's fiction, Robinson, jackie, 1919-1972, fiction, African americans, fiction, Time travel, fiction, Baseball, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Afro-Americans
People: Jackie Robinson (1919-1972)