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• Audience: Older
• Author: Phillip Hoose
• Format: Book

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  Attucks! Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team that Awakened a City

  By Phillip Hoose

  This is a comprehensive account of the people and the events involved in the first all-Black high school basketball team that confronted segregation in Indianapolis and won.

  • Nonfiction, Biography, Sports & Recreation
  • Notable Children's Books 2019
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780374306120
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  The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

  By Phillip Hoose

  Hoose presents the true World War II story of eight Danish teens who became resistance fighters while most of the adults in their country reacted passively to the Nazi takeover. He and Knud Pedersen, the original organizer of their Churchill Club, extensively conversed in person and via email; Hoose weaves Pedersen's own words into an adventurous narrative about these young heroes.

  • Nonfiction, History, World History, Biography
  • Notable Children's Books 2016, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2016 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780374300227
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  Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

  By Phillip Hoose

  Hoose reveals the true story of an unsung hero of the Montgomery bus boycott in a work that seamlessly merges Colvin's own recollections with the narrative voice, providing a uniquely personal view of Colvin and the civil rights movement.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History
  • John Newbery Medal 2010 (Honor Title), Notable Children's Books 2010, Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal 2010 (Honor Title)
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9780374313227