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The hero two doors down : based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend
Title:
The hero two doors down : based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend
Author:
Robinson, Sharon, 1950- author.
ISBN:
9780545804516
Personal Author:
Robinson, Sharon, 1950- author.
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Abstract:
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.
Personal Subject:
Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972-Juvenile fiction.

Satlow, Steve-Childhood and youth-Juvenile fiction.

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972-Fiction.

Satlow, Steve-Childhood and youth-Fiction.
Subject Term:
Baseball players -- Juvenile fiction.

Discrimination in housing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Christmas trees -- Juvenile fiction.

Baseball -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Fiction.

Jews -- United States -- Fiction.

Race relations -- Fiction.

Prejudices -- Fiction.

Friendship -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Flatbush (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.

Flatbush (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.
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