Waiting for Pumpsie
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2017]
Format: Book
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
In 1959 Bernard is a young Red Sox fan, troubled by the lack of black players in major league baseball, especially as there are none at all on his favorite team--but change is coming in the form of a rookie named Pumpsie Green.
Subjects:
Green, Pumpsie, 1933- -- Juvenile fiction.
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) -- Juvenile fiction.
African American baseball players -- Juvenile fiction.
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Baseball -- United States -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
African American families -- Juvenile fiction.
Baseball stories.
Discrimination -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Green, Pumpsie, 1933- -- Juvenile fiction.
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) -- Juvenile fiction.
African American baseball players -- Juvenile fiction.
Discrimination in sports -- United States -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
Baseball -- United States -- History -- Juvenile fiction.
African American families -- Juvenile fiction.
Baseball stories.
Discrimination -- Juvenile fiction.
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Target Audience: 600L
ISBN:
9781580895453 (reinforced for library use)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
P Wittenstein | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Picture Book | In |
P Wittenstein | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
P Wittenstein | Blythewood | Picture Book | In |
P Wittenstein | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Picture Book | In |
P Wittenstein | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Picture Book | In |
P Wittenstein | Edgewood | Picture Book | In |
P Wittenstein | Edgewood | Picture Book | Out (Due: 5/13/2024) |
P Wittenstein | Northeast Indoors | Picture Book | In |
P Wittenstein | Sandhills Indoors | Picture Book | In |
P Wittenstein | St. Andrews Indoors | Picture Book | In |
P Wittenstein | St. Andrews Indoors | Picture Book | Out (Due: 6/8/2024) |
P Wittenstein | Southeast | Picture Book | In |
P Wittenstein | Southeast | Picture Book | In |
Includes bibliographical references.