02686cam a2200553 i 4500 1726712748 TxAuBib 20241119120000.0 240318s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316442596 hardback 0316442593 hardback TxAuBib rda Alexander, Kwame, author. Black star / Kwame Alexander. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. 372 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Door of no return Sequel to: The door of no return. "Twelve-year-old Charley Cuffey is many things: a granddaughter, a best friend, and probably the best pitcher in all of Lee's Mill. Set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball, Charley doesn't need reminders from her best friend Cool Willie Green to know that she has lofty dreams for a Black girl in the American South. Even so, Nana Kofi's thrilling stories about courageous ancestors and epic journeys make it impossible not to dream big. She knows he has so many more to tell, but according to her parents, she isn't old enough to know about certain things like what happened to Booker Preston that one night in Great Bridge and why she can never play on the brand-new real deal baseball field on the other side of town"-- Provided by publisher. Ages 10 & up. Little, Brown and Company. 20241119. Black people Juvenile fiction. Black people Fiction. African Americans Juvenile fiction. Women baseball players Juvenile fiction. Women baseball players Fiction. Baseball fields Juvenile fiction. Baseball fields Fiction. Pitchers (Baseball) Juvenile fiction. Pitchers (Baseball) Fiction. Baseball stories. Segregation Juvenile fiction. Segregation Fiction. Racism against Black people Juvenile fiction. Race relations Juvenile fiction. Race relations Fiction. African Americans Fiction. Baseball Fiction. Racism Fiction. United States History 20th century Juvenile fiction. United States Fiction History 20th century. Historical fiction. lcgft Novels in verse. Door of no return.