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Attucks!: How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World
Contributor(s): Hoose, Phillip (Author)
ISBN: 0374306125     ISBN-13: 9780374306120
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
OUR PRICE:   $19.79  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation - Basketball
- Young Adult Nonfiction | People & Places - United States - African American
- Young Adult Nonfiction | History - United States - State & Local
Dewey: 796.323
LCCN: 2018002809
Lexile Measure: 1110
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Black History
- Chronological Period - 1950's
- Locality - Indianapolis, Indiana
- Geographic Orientation - Indiana
- Cultural Region - Midwest
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 199547
Reading Level: 7.5   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 7.0
 
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Publisher Description:

An ALA Notable Book of 2019
NYPL Best Book for Teens of 2018
A 2018 Booklist Youth Editors' Choice
A Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Book of 2018
A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Nonfiction Book of 2018
An ALSC Notable Children's Book of 2019
A YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Nominee

The true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.

By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history as the first state champions from Indianapolis and the first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open championship tournament--an integration they had forced with their on-court prowess.

From native Hoosier and award-winning author Phillip Hoose comes this true story of a team up against impossible odds, making a difference when it mattered most.

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Contributor Bio(s): Hoose, Phillip: - Phillip Hoose is an award-winning author of books, essays, stories, songs and articles. Although he first wrote for adults, he turned his attention to children and young adults in part to keep up with his own daughters. His book Claudette Colvin won a National Book Award and was dubbed a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2009. He is also the author of Hey, Little Ant, co-authored by his daughter, Hannah; It's Our World, Too!; The Race to Save the Lord God Bird; The Boys Who Challenged Hitler; and We Were There, Too!, a National Book Award finalist. He has received a Jane Addams Children's Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and multiple Robert F. Sibert Honor Awards, among numerous honors. He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and grew up in the towns of South Bend, Angola, and Speedway, Indiana. He was educated at Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry. He lives in Portland, Maine.