Title: Stumptown Kid
Author: Carol Gorman
Summary: In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.
Tyler Says: I liked how this black man was disrespected and Charlie Nebraska offers him friendship. Then later on the man offers him help coaching his baseball team.
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