Black Star
The Door of No Return, Book 2
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Black Star
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Narrated by:
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Angel Pean
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Nile Bullock
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Karen Chilton
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Dominic Hoffman
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Aaron Goodson
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By:
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Kwame Alexander
The truth is all we have.
Twelve-year-old Charley is set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional baseball, even if that’s a lofty dream for a Black girl in the American South in the 1920s. Even so, her grandfather Kofi’s thrilling stories about courageous ancestors and his own epic journey to freedom from slavery make it impossible not to dream big.
She knows he has so much more to tell, but according to her parents, she isn’t old enough to know about certain things, like what happened to Booker Preston that one night in Great Bridge, and why she can never play on the brand-new baseball field on the other side of town.
When Charley challenges a neighbour-hood bully to a game at the church picnic, she knows she can win, even with her ragtag team. Then a dispute on the field leads to Charley making a fateful decision, one that will bring consequences she never could have imagined.
2025, Audie Awards Middle Grade, Winner
2026, The Carnegie Medal for Writing Outstanding book written in English for children and young people, Long-listed
©2024 Kwame Alexander (P)2024 Hachette Audio