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Author(s):

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist:

Publisher:

Copyright Date:

Genre:

Brief Annotation:

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Readers who will like this book:

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) :

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age):

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade):
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3. List awards

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Baseball Saved Us

Book Title: Baseball Saved Us

Author(s): Ken Mochizuki

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Dom Lee

Publisher: Lee & Low Books Inc.

Copyright Date: 1993

Genre: Historical fiction, Picturbook, Sports fiction

Brief Annotation: This story is about a young Japanese American boy who was forced by the government into an internment camp during World War II. Japanese Americans were thought to be a risk to the safety of our country and forced to camps and treated as a threat to society, even though most of the people in the camps were born in the United States. Discrimination was something that the little boy in the story faced more often than not. He was discriminated against for his ethnicity, his height, and even his athletic abilities. These camps became almost unbearable for the Japanese Americans and they turned to baseball to pass the time. Everyone came together, when the stress was high, and used baseball to save their spirits and bring them together.

Your Rating (1-5) and why: 4 – I like the story but I thought that the writing was a little difficult to read. It wasn’t as smooth as I prefer but I thought the moral of the story was great.

Readers who will like this book: Young children who enjoy sports and/or stories about history. This book has a great meaning and it tells a part of the United States history that isn’t always a proud moment in our past.

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp: This book can be tied into a historical theme about World War II. Before reading this book, a teacher could do a K-W-L Chart with the students and see what they already know about what happened during the war, globally and within the United States, what they want to learn about and then after reading this book, and quite possibly many others, they can discuss what they learned. This book shines light on events that happened within the United States that aren’t discussed a lot because the war was mostly fought overseas. It brings up valid points as to what wars people were fighting here. (Tompkins, pg. 57-59)

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud: What are some things that you know about World War II? (Fill in the K column of the K-W-L chart)

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age): 3-5

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade): 4.1

3. List awards: 1993 Parent’s Choice Award

4. Does this book have a book trailer? No

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