Chapter Book 13 --- We are the Ship: Story of Negro Baseball League

Title:  We are the Ship: The story of Negro League Baseball
Author: Kadir Nelson
Illustrator: Kadir Nelson
Genre: Historical
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Characters: Players of the Negro Baseball League
Themes: baseball, discrimination, determination, social change
Awards: 2009 Coretta Scott King Award, and 2009 Robert F. Sibert Award
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Summary: The book is about the history of the Negro Baseball League. It starts at the beginning in the 1920s and continues all the way up until 1947 when the famous Jackie Robinson swapped over to the major Leagues. The story is told from a baseball player. The book tells about all of the hardships that the negro ball players had to go through just to play baseball like other people were doing but it was because they were African American. It tells about how they were discriminated against by others like they were not good enough to play baseball. The story is really touching and it really makes you feel for them and like you were really there to witness these events that have now made history. I would use this book when discussing things in history class that pertain to this time period and I would use this because it will fit into Black History Month and it discusses multiple players during that time and they were all hero's.