Stumptown kid

Description:

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.

subjects: Coaching (Athletics),  Juvenile fiction,  Single-parent families,  Prejudices,  Fiction,  Baseball,  African Americans,  History,  Baseball stories,  Children's fiction,  Baseball, fiction,  Athletics, fiction,  Prejudices, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Single-parent families, fiction,  Iowa, fiction,  Trout fishing,  Fishing, united states

Places: Iowa

Times: 20th century