Starting middle school in a new town, brainy Jerry Flack changes his image from "dork" to "cool kid, " only to discover that he'd rather be himself.
Carol Gorman Libri
Carol Gorman si dedica alla creazione di romanzi di mistero e suspense per giovani lettori. Prima di dedicarsi completamente alla scrittura, ha trascorso diciassette anni come educatrice in vari livelli scolastici. Le sue ricerche letterarie sono guidate dal desiderio di raccontare storie avvincenti e di condividere la sua passione per la letteratura sia con il pubblico giovane che con gli autori in erba. Gorman dirige frequentemente laboratori di scrittura e conferenze, ispirando gli studenti e demistificando il mondo dell'editoria.
Twelve-year-old Charlie Nebraska wants two things he can't get: to make the local baseball team and to have life to return to the way it was before his father died two years earlier in the Korean War.When Charlie meets Luther Peale, a stranger who quietly and mysteriously arrives in Charlie's small Iowa town, and sets up camp near the river, the two strike up a friendship. Luther is a former Negro Baseball League player, and he agrees to coach Charlie's fledgling neighborhood baseball team.But many of the town's white residents are suspicious of Luther because of his skin color. And when Charlie inadvertently reveals a secret of Luther's, violence erupts in the town and both Luther and Charlie are drawn into serious danger.Authors Carol Gorman and Ron J. Findley have created two highly memorable, emotionally complex characters in this dramatic story set in the days of the Negro Leagues that illustrates the meanings of friendship, prejudice, and heroism.
Mystery Thriller 10/1999
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