The hero two doors down : based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend

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Label

The hero two doors down : based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend

Title remainder

based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend

Statement of responsibility

Sharon Robinson

Creator

• Robinson, Sharon, 1950-

Author

• Robinson, Sharon, 1950-

Subject

• Baseball players -- Juvenile fiction
• Christmas trees -- Juvenile fiction
• Discrimination in housing -- New York (State) | New York -- Juvenile fiction
• Flatbush (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
• Flatbush (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Juvenile fiction
• Friendship -- Fiction
• Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
• Jews -- United States -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Fiction
• Prejudices -- Fiction
• Race relations -- Fiction
• Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 -- Fiction
• Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972 -- Juvenile fiction
• Satlow, Steve -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction
• Satlow, Steve -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction
• Baseball -- Fiction

Genre

• Juvenile fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship

Cataloging source

NJQ/DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.R567583

LC item number

He 2016

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

pre adolescent