Attucks!: How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World

Attucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in...
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Author: Phillip Hoose
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Attucks!: How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World by Hoose, Phillip

Attucks!: How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World

$58.10

Attucks!: How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World

$58.10
Author: Phillip Hoose
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Attucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana, masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose.

By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history as the first state champions from Indianapolis and the first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open championship tournament--an integration they had forced with their on-court prowess.

From native Hoosier and award-winning author Phillip Hoose comes this true story of a team up against impossible odds, making a difference when it mattered most.

An ALA Notable Book of 2019
NYPL Best Book for Teens of 2018
A 2018 Booklist Youth Editors' Choice
A Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Book of 2018
A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Nonfiction Book of 2018
An ALSC Notable Children's Book of 2019
A YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Nominee

This title has Common Core connections.

Author: Phillip Hoose
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Published: 10/23/2018
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780374306120
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.5
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 199547 / Attucks! Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City


Review Citation(s):
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2018 pg. 101
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2018 pg. 207
Booklist 09/01/2018 pg. 102
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2018 - Book Of Special Distinction
School Library Journal 10/01/2018 pg. 90
Publishers Weekly 11/19/2018
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Phillip Hoose is the author of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, a National Book Award winner and a Newbery Honor Book. His other books include Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, also a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book; The Boys Who Challenged Hitler, a Sibert Honor and Boston Globe-Horn BookNonfiction Honor Winner; and We Were There, Too!, a National Book Award finalist. Mr. Hoose lives in Portland, Maine.


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