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Original Title:	Stumptown Kid
ISBN:	1561454125 (ISBN13: 9781561454129)
Edition Language:	English

Stumptown Kid Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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Title	:	Stumptown Kid
Author	:	Carol Gorman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	April 30th 2007 by Peachtree Publishers (first published 2005)
Categories	:	Sports. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Baseball. Childrens. Middle Grade. Young Adult

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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.

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This was the best book that I have ever read and if you are interested about racism, and baseball then you NEED to read this book.

Winning combination of historical fiction and baseball. Charlie wants to make the best baseball team but gets cut. A former Negro League baseball player befriends him and becomes the coach of Charlie's second-rate team. Racial tension abound (as this takes place in 1952 Iowa), but fortunately the racist language is tame. Lots of baseball techniques given.

really interesting book very intense and just a great book in general makes you want to read it all the time even if you don't want to trust i tries stopping but i couldn't it was just so interesting so i think you should read it

One of my 6th graders, Gage, recommended this book to me as the best book he'd ever read -- and he was right! Its focus is baseball but since the main character's friend is a black former pro baseball player in the 50's, there is a lot about race relations of that time too. Very, VERY exciting! I can see pairing it with "Thank You, Jackie Robinson."



This dramatic and sad story set in the years of when Blacks couldn't play baseball defines the true meanings of friendship, love, and sticking up for one another. Charlie Nebraska wants two things in his life, to make the local Wildcats baseball team and to have his father back who had died in the Korean War. Then Charlie meets Luther Peale, a former Negro Baseball League player who agrees to coach Charlie's neighborhood baseball team for a game against the Wildcats. But many of Charlie's white

This book has lots of characters in it and they each have their own personality. You almost feel like you get to know the characters. You become to sit and trying to infer whats going to happen next.