Alexander, Kwame.

Black star / Kwame Alexander. - 1st trade pbk. ed. - New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2025. �2024 - 375 p. ; 20 cm. - The door of no return . - Alexander, Kwame. Door of no return trilogy. .

School Library Journal starred, October 2024 Booklist starred, July 2024 Kirkus Starred, August 2024 Horn Book, September 2024

Twelve-year old Black girl Charley, who dreams of becoming the first professional female pitcher, must navigate adolescence during the turbulent segregation era and the beginning of the Great Migration.

5-8 Follett Content Solutions.



Coretta Scott King Award, 2025

9780316442695


Baseball--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.


United States--History--20th century--Fiction.


Sports fiction.
Novels in verse.
Historical fiction.

PZ7.5.A44 / Bl 2025

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