Barbed Wire Baseball

Informationen zum Autor Marissa Moss has written more than 70 children’s books. She is the bestselling author/illustrator of the Amelia’s Notebook series and illustrator of The Eye That Never Sleeps, America’s Tea Parties, Barbed Wire Baseball, and Nurse, Soldier, Spy. Her awards include two California Book Awards, a Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Award Honor, an NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, an ALA Notable, and the Cowan Writers’ Prize. She lives in Berkeley, California. Klappentext "As a boy, Kenichi 'Zeni' Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps where more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry are imprisoned without trials. Zeni brings the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense of hope."--Amazon.com. Zusammenfassung An inspiring story about a sad and little discussed part of history. Set in the Japanese internment camps of WWII, Barbed Wire Baseball follows Zeni as he realises his dream to be a professional baseball player and uses his talents to bring hope to others

Product details

• Authors: Marissa Moss, Marissa/ Shimizu Moss, Moss Marissa
• Assisted by: Yuko Shimizu (Illustration), Shimizu Yuko (Illustration)
• Publisher: Abrams
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 6 to 9
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2013
• EAN: 9781419705212
• ISBN: 978-1-4197-0521-2
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Picture books; JUVENILE FICTION / General, Picture storybooks, Interest age: from c 6 years