Safe At Home
基本信息·出版社：Scholastic Paperbacks ·页码：160 页 ·出版日期：2007年09月 ·ISBN：0439671981 ·条形码：9780439671989 ·装帧：平装 ·正文语种 ...
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基本信息·出版社：Scholastic Paperbacks
·页码：160 页
·出版日期：2007年09月
·ISBN：0439671981
·条形码：9780439671989
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：在家千般好
内容简介 Ten-year-old Elijah Breeze, aka Jumper, is having the hardest summer of his life. His father has just died; his mother has moved them from the suburbs to New York City's Harlem area; and he has to spend the summer at baseball camp. Basketball is Jumper's game. He doesn't know anything about baseball, or city life, or how to keep going without his dad. Jumper struggles in his new life, but he's encouraged by the support of his coach and by his grandma's wisdom. He finds out it is possible to start over in a new place with new people . . . and still hold on to what's important from his past.
作者简介 SHARON ROBINSON is an educational consultant for Major League Baseball. She has written several nonfiction books about her father, including Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America. Her latest book is Slam Dunk!, the sequel to Safe at Home.
编辑推荐 From School Library Journal Grade 4-7–Soon after the sudden death of his beloved father, 10-year-old Elijah Breeze, nicknamed Jumper, moves with his bereaved mother from suburban Connecticut to Harlem, where she grew up, to live with his grandmother. He experiences culture shock from this abrupt change and still struggles with his grief. To make things worse, his mother has signed him up for a coed summer baseball camp where he has to cope with his undeveloped hitting and catching skills as well as a bully named Marcus. As the summer progresses, Jumper makes new friends and establishes a close relationship with his empathetic, knowledgeable coach. And, he eventually gains Marcus's respect after a series of near fights. Although the baseball action permeating this message-laden, quick-reading novel often lacks the excitement of other sports stories, Robinson (who is Jackie Robinson's daughter) has created two intriguing protagonists and a group of equally colorful secondary characters (girls and boys). Regardless of their interest in baseball, readers will identify with these youngsters and appreciate the simple story.
–Jack Forman, Mesa College Library, San Diego Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
