The journal of Biddy Owens :
Myers, Walter Dean.
The journal of Biddy Owens : the Negro leagues / by Walter Dean Myers. - New York : Scholastic, 2001. - 141 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. - My name is America Dear America .
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
3-7. 5. 920 Lexile
0439095034
00044667
Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team)--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Segregation--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Historical Fiction
Baseball--Negro League--Fiction
Sports--Baseball--Fiction
PZ7.M992 / Ji 2001
Fic
The journal of Biddy Owens : the Negro leagues / by Walter Dean Myers. - New York : Scholastic, 2001. - 141 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. - My name is America Dear America .
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
3-7. 5. 920 Lexile
0439095034
00044667
Birmingham Black Barons (Baseball team)--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Segregation--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Historical Fiction
Baseball--Negro League--Fiction
Sports--Baseball--Fiction
PZ7.M992 / Ji 2001
Fic