Heart of a champion / Ellen Schwartz.

By:

Schwartz, Ellen, 1949-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

177049880X (hardcover)
9781770498808 (hardcover)

Subject(s):

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 -- Juvenile fiction

DDC classification:

Summary: "Ten-year-old Kenny (Kenji in Japanese) worships his older brother, Mickey (Mitsuo), a baseball hero whose outstanding performance on the Asahi baseball team has given him fame and popularity. Despite Kenny's suspected heart condition, he is determined to practice secretly with Mickey so he, too, can one day try out for the Asahi. But world events soon overtake life in this quiet community. When Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in 1941, everything for Kenny and his family spirals out of control ..."--www.amazon.ca

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Meaford Public Library Junior Collection	Fiction	J FIC Schwa (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Forest of reading nominee 2017		11024

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Canadian author.

A sports story.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Ten-year-old Kenny (Kenji in Japanese) worships his older brother, Mickey (Mitsuo), a baseball hero whose outstanding performance on the Asahi baseball team has given him fame and popularity. Despite Kenny's suspected heart condition, he is determined to practice secretly with Mickey so he, too, can one day try out for the Asahi. But world events soon overtake life in this quiet community. When Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in 1941, everything for Kenny and his family spirals out of control ..."--www.amazon.ca

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