Jackie Robinson: Baseball Legend

Jackie Robinson: Baseball Legend is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.3.8 and Literacy.L.3.6. Readers learn about the life of African-American baseball player Jackie Robinson through full-page photographs and narrative nonfiction text. A timeline of Robinson's life is included. This book should be paired with "e;Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers"e; (9781477726310) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.