Call Me Roberto! Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos

Name: Call Me Roberto! Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos
Author: Nathalie Alonso, illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez
ISBN: 9781635928112

by Nathalie Alonso, illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez

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A Robert F. Sibert Honor Book A BCCB Blue Ribbon Horn Book Fanfare 2024 NPR’s Books We Love List 2024 NYPL Best Book 2024 Evanston PL’s 101 Great Books for Kids 2024 Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2024 Here is the inspirational story of Major League Baseball player Roberto Clemente—not Bob—who endured years of racism and discrimination to become one of the greatest baseball players of all time. ★ School Library Journal, starred review ★ The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review ★ Publishers Weekly, starred review ★ The Horn Book, starred review Roberto Clemente always loved baseball. Growing up in Carolina, Puerto Rico, he swung tree branches (since he didn’t have a bat) and hit tin cans. He was always batting, pitching, running, sliding.…

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"The highs and lows of one of the greatest baseball players of all time is told here with a special focus on how Roberto Clemente fought racism throughout his career. The author makes sure not to skimp on fun baseball details, but she also expertly addresses what Clemente had to go through as a professional ballplayer from Puerto Rico, with African roots, living through Jim Crow times. It’s a deft duality. Great writing, beautiful art and worthy of Clemente himself, who said, as captured in the book, “I represent the common people of America. So I am going to be treated like a human being.” (For ages 7 to 10)"

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