Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values to Live By

by Sharon Robinson

Overview

This inspiring collection pays tribute to baseball legend and civil rights hero Jackie Robinson. Jackie¹s daughter, Sharon, acts as a personal tour guide through the nine heartfelt, hard-won values that helped her father achieve his goals. Jackie¹s values are brought to life through the powerful words of other heroes and pioneers, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Oprah Winfrey, and Christopher Reeve.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545668613
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	02/25/2014
Series:	Jackie's 9
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Sharon Robinson, daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. She has written several books about her father, including Promises to Keep, Testing the Ice, The Hero Two Doors Down, and Jackie's Nine: Jackie Robinson's Values to Live By. She is also the author of the memoir Child of the Dream and the picture book Under the Same Sun about her family in Tanzania, as well as the middle-grade novels Safe at Home and Slam Dunk!

Table of Contents

	Introduction
	Courage
	In the Shadow of Your Wings	9
	The Meeting	15
	She Walked Alone	20
	Determination
	The Capping Ceremony	29
	Breaking the Color Barrier	33
	Still Me	38
	Teamwork
	Breaking Barriers	45
	The Colonel from "Old Kaintuck"	53
	Together Now! PUSH!	58
	Persistence
	Getting Beyond Average	65
	Wait 'Til Next Year	68
	The Great One	71
	Integrity
	Love and War	81
	The Lion at Dusk	84
	Old Men by the Fire	90
	Citizenship
	Jazz and Activism	99
	From The Hall of Fame to Birmingham	104
	Parents As Mentors	111
	Justice
	Turned My Wailing Into Dancing	119
	I Never Had It Made	126
	A Testament of Hope	130
	Commitment
	A Father's Love	137
	Jackie's Prison	141
	Making It Home	147
	Excellence
	A Grand Tribute	157
	Michael Jordan	162
	Oprah Winfrey	166
	Epilogue
	Jackie's Nine	170
	Eulogy
	A Temple of God	174

Editorial Reviews

Intended as an inspirational book for young people, baseball hall-of-famer Jackie Robinson's daughter has compiled a series of brief essays and anecdotes illustrating nine values that defined her father's approach to life: courage, determination, teamwork, persistence, integrity, citizenship, justice, commitment, and excellence. Robinson targets the book not just at African-Americans but at all teenagers, including brief excerpts from the stories of her father, the first African-American player in the major leagues, and also heroes such as Roberto Clemente, Muhammad Ali, and actor Christopher Reeve. She uses the stories of her father's life as the underlying theme, and expands upon his strivings to illustrate the principles that allowed him and others to overcome life's serious difficulties. She interweaves struggles from her own life, such as coping with being the child of a famous man and her brother's and her father's early deaths. Creator of baseball's Breaking Barriers program for schoolchildren, Robinson writes only a few of the essays herself. The selections amply illustrate all nine values and also depict another of her father's strongest traits: love. Each is short enough to hold the attention of reluctant readers, and should appeal to those interested in inspiring nonfiction. (Nonfiction. 12-15)

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