Carol Gorman
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jerry Flack, recently-elected sixth-grade president, organizes an Elizabethan festival at school but accepts a challenge from a bully that may mean he will once again be considered a "dork."
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.