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I am Jackie Robinson
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  • Published: 5 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9781984883742
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Childrens
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

I am Jackie Robinson

Formats & editions
EBook
8 Jan 2015
Audiobook
5 Feb 2019
Paperback
29 Aug 2023
Hardback
15 Jan 2017
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This New York Times Bestselling biography series by Brad Meltzer has an inspiring message: We can all be heroes.

Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. But he lived at a time before the Civil Rights Movement, when the rules weren't fair to African Americans. Even though Jackie was a great athlete, he wasn't allowed on the best teams just because of the color of his skin. Jackie knew that sports were best when everyone, of every color, played together. He became the first black player in Major League Baseball, and his bravery changed African-American history and led the way to equality in all sports in America.

This engaging series is the perfect way to bring American history to life for young children, providing them with the right role models, supplemementing Common Core learning in the classroom, and best of all, inspiring them to strive and dream.
  • Published: 5 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9781984883742
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Childrens
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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About the authors

Brad Meltzer

Brad Meltzer is the Emmy-nominated, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Ordinary People Change the World children’s book series, The Lightning Rod and twelve other thriller novels, nonfiction books such as The JFK Conspiracy, and comic books, for which he has won the prestigious Eisner Award. He is one of the only authors to have had books on the bestseller list in five different categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Advice, Children’s Books, and Graphic Books.
 
Brad is the host of Brad Meltzer’s Decoded on the History Channel and is responsible for helping find the missing 9/11 flag with his show Brad Meltzer’s Lost History. His children’s books are the inspiration for the PBS KIDS TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.  
 
His books have been read by multiple U.S. Presidents. The Hollywood Reporter put him on their list of the 25 Most Powerful Authors. And his recent commencement address at the University of Michigan has been called “one of the best of all time.”
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Christopher Eliopoulos

Christopher Eliopoulos began his illustration career as a letterer for Marvel and has worked on thousands of comics, including Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius, Pet Avengers, and Cow Boy, all of which he wrote and illustrated. He is the illustrator of the New York Times–bestselling Ordinary People Change the World series of picture book biographies. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their identical twin sons.
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Praise for I am Jackie Robinson

Accolades for Ordinary People Change the World:

  • New York Times Bestsellers: I am Abraham Lincoln, I am Amelia Earhart, I am Rosa Parks, I am Martin Luther King, Jr., I am George Washington, I am Jane Goodall
  • Indie Next List Pick: I am Abraham Lincoln
  • Hudson Booksellers Best Books of the Year: Ordinary People Change the World (series)