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Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson

Testing the Ice: A True Story about Jackie Robinson

Hardcover

01 Oct, 2009

By Sharon Robinson (author), Kadir Nelson (Illustrated by)

Sharon Robinson, the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, has crafted a hearwarming, true story about growing up with her father.When Jackie Robins...

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ISBN-10:

0545052513

ISBN-13:

9780545052511

Publisher

Scholastic Inc.

Dimensions

12.30 X 9.28 X 0.40 inches

Language

English

Awards

Nominee | 2011-2012 | Delaware Diamonds Award
Nominee | 2012 | Golden Sower Award
Nominee | 2012 | Monarch Award
Approved | 2009 | Parents Choice Awards (Fall) (2008-Up)
Nominee | 2011-2012 | South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
Nominee | 2012 | Virginia Readers Choice Award

Description

Sharon Robinson, the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, has crafted a hearwarming, true story about growing up with her father.

When Jackie Robinson retires from baseball and moves his family to Connecticut, the beautiful lake on their property is the center of everyone's fun. The neighborhood children join the Robinson kids for swimming and boating. But oddly, Jackie never goes near the water. In a dramatic episode that first winter, the children beg to go ice skating on the lake. Jackie says they can go--but only after he tests the ice to make sure it's safe. The children prod and push to get Jackie outside, until hesitantly, he finally goes. Like a blind man with a stick, (contd.)

Product Details

ISBN-10

:0545052513

ISBN-13

:9780545052511

Publisher

:Scholastic Inc.

Publication date

: 01 Oct, 2009

Category

: Children's Nonfiction

Sub-Category

: Social Topics - Values & Virtues

Format

:Hardcover

Language

:English

Reading Level

: All

No. of Units

:1

Dimension

: 12.30 X 9.28 X 0.40 inches

Weight

:550 g

About the Author

KADIR NELSON illustrated two Caldecott Honor Books: Moses and Libre: Le long voyage d'Henri. Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange won the Coretta Scott King Award. Will Smith's Just The Two of Us won an NAACP Image Award, and his new book, We Are The Ship continues to garner major awards. Nelson showed artistic talent at age three and began working in oils by age sixteen. Kadir Nelson lives in Los Angeles.


Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, is the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction. She has also written several widely praised nonfiction books about her father, including Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values to Live By and Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America.

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