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Warrior on the Mound

Warrior on the Mound

Headen, Sandra W.

Hardcover

General Juvenile FictionHistorySports & Recreation

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0823453782
ISBN13: 9780823453788
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: Mar 5 2024
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.59 Depth: 8.35
Language: English
This intense, evocative story of racial unrest in prewar North Carolina ends with a dramatic match between white and Black little league teams.

1935. Twelve-year-old Cato wants nothing more than to play baseball, perfect his pitch, and meet Mr. Satchel Paige--the best pitcher in Negro League baseball. But when he and his teammates trespass on their town's whites-only baseball field for a practice, the resulting racial outrage burns like a brushfire through the entire community, threatening Cato, his family, and every one of his friends.

There's only one way this can end without violence: It has to be settled on the mound, between the white team and the Black. Winner takes all.

Written in first person with a rich, convincing voice, Warrior on the Mound is about the experience of segregation; about the tinderbox environment of the prewar South; about having a dream; about injustice, and, finally, about dialogue.

Back matter includes an author's note, historical background, biographical information about Negro League players, and more.

A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year

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