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Matt Tavares hits one out of the park with this powerful tale of a kid from the segregated South who would become baseball’s home-run king.
Before he was Hammerin’ Hank, Henry Aaron was a young boy growing up in Mobile, Alabama, with what seemed like a foolhardy dream: to be a big-league baseball player. He didn’t have a bat. He didn’t have a ball. And there wasn’t a single black ball player in the major leagues. But none of this could stop Henry Aaron. In a captivating biography of Henry Aaron’s young life — from his sandlot days through his time in the Negro Leagues to the day he played his first spring training game for the Braves — Matt Tavares offers an inspiring homage to one of baseball’s all-time greats.
Back matter includes an author’s note, Henry Aaron’s career statistics, and a bibliography.
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2011 Kiddo Award winner
2011 NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children, Recommended book
2011 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
2011 International Reading Association Teacher’s Choices List
2011 CCBC Choices
2010 Lupine Honor Award
2010 Cybils Award Finalist
2010-2011 Alabama Camellia Children’s Choice Award Finalist
2012-2013 South Carolina Children’s Book Award finalist
2013 Garden State Children’s Book Award finalist
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