Jackie and me : a baseball card adventure

Format:

Book

Title:

Jackie and me : a baseball card adventure

Author:

Gutman, Dan.

ISBN:

9780380976850

9780380800841

9780613279123

9780756909123

9780439584432

Edition:

1st edition.

Publication:

New York : Avon Books, [1999]

Physical Description:

145 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series title(s):

Avon Camelot book.

General Note:

Sequel to: Honus and me.

Summary:

With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process. Joe Stoshack has really done it this time. When a pitcher insults his Polish heritage, Joe flings his bat and prompts an on-field brawl that ends in a two-team pileup. He's suspended from Little League ... indefinitely. At school, his teacher assigns an oral report for Black History Month. The topic? An African-American who has made a significant contribution to American society. The prize for the best report is four tickets to a cool local amusement park. But Joe doesn't know where to begin. If he could just get his hands on a certain Jackie Robinson baseball card ... Fans of Dan Gutman's hit novel Honus & Me already know that Joe has the remarkable ability to travel through time -- with baseball cards! Now he's bound for Brooklyn circa 1947, to meet one of the greatest ballplayers of all time, the man single-handedly responsible for breaking "the color barrier" in the major leagues. If getting up close and personal with Jackie Robinson isn't a sure way to ace his report for Black History Month, what is? What Joe can't predict is that his journey will not only change the color of his skin for a time, it will alter his view of history -- and his definition of courage.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR-ATOS 4.3.

Personal Subject:

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972-Juvenile fiction.

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972. (OCoLC)fst00046870

Subject(s):

Time travel -- Juvenile fiction.

Baseball stories.

Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.

Baseball cards -- Juvenile fiction.

African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Baseball -- Fiction.

Genre:

Time travel (Fiction).

Multicultural stories.

Electronic Access:

http://www.avonbooks.com

Holds:

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Summary

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 of courage.Joe Stoshack has really done it this time. When a pitcher insults his Polish heritage, Joe flings his bat and prompts an on-field brawl that ends in a two-team pileup. he's suspended from Little League...indefinitely. At school, his teacher assigns an oral report for Black History Month. The topic? An African-American who has made a significant contribution to American society. The prize for the best report is four tickets to a cool local amusement park. But Joe doesn't know where to begin. If he could just get his hands on a certain Jackie Robinson baseball card...

Author Notes

Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He received a degree in psychology from Rutgers University in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of business in 1985, he decided to become a full-time writer. He wrote several non-fiction baseball books for adults, before changing his focus to non-fiction sports books for children. In 1994, he decided to switch to children's fiction. He is the author of the Baseball Card Adventures Series, My Weird School series, My Weird School Daze series, My Weirder School series, and The Genius Files series. In 2014 his title, Texas with Love, which was the fourth book in the Genius Files Series, made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (3)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 4-7-Joe Shostak can travel through time just by holding a baseball card in his hand, and he begins a journey back to 1947 to meet Brooklyn Dodger great Jackie Robinson to finish his report for Black History Month. Joe, who becomes a bat boy for the Dodgers, is there when Robinson becomes the first black professional baseball player. Joe not only time travels, he also is transformed from Caucasian to African American. By watching Robinson endure the pressures of bigotry and hatred when he breaks baseball's color barrier, Joe learns patience, tolerance, and respect. In his new skin, he also learns about segregation and prejudice firsthand. Joe also finds himself in some humorous situations while searching all over Brooklyn for baseball cards that he hopes will make his father rich. Johnny Heller narrates the book by Dan Gutman (Avon/Camelot, 1999) with enthusiasm and energy, conveying accurately and convincingly the voices of Joe, Jackie, and the other characters. Funny, touching, and instructional, the audiobook would be an excellent addition to libraries to generate discussions about racial prejudice and would be a good choice for book reports as well as for sports enthusiasts.-Larry Cooperman, Jacksonville Public Library, FL (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Horn Book Review

Joe Stoshack, who traveled into baseball's past in [cf2]Honus and Me[cf1], decides to study Jackie Robinson for Black History Month. Traveling back to 1947, Joe meets Robinson and observes the racism the Brooklyn Dodger encounters as the first African-American major leaguer. Illustrated with historic photographs, this overly purposeful novel tries to compare Robinson's 1947 experiences to the milder prejudice Joe feels when he's called a Polack. From HORN BOOK Fall 1999, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 4^-7. Joe Stoshack discovered his special power to travel back in time using baseball cards in Gutman's Honus and Me (1997). Now Joe has been assigned a report on a famous African American, and what better way to research the subject, Jackie Robinson, than to take a trip back to 1947? But Joe's wish to know what it was like for Robinson lands Joe in Brooklyn as an African American, and he experiences firsthand the racial prejudice and discrimination of the time. Although he fails in his efforts to make his father rich by bringing baseball cards back from the past when he returns, he gains an appreciation of Robinson's courage and strength in breaking baseball's color barrier. Fans will overlook the simplistic treatment of racism and the relative ease with which Joe's mother grants him permission to time travel and simply enjoy the baseball action, which is enhanced by historical photos of Robinson's rookie year. --Karen Hutt