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100	1		_aMyers, Walter Dean _d1937-2014.
245	1	4	_aThe journal of Biddy Owens : _bthe Negro leagues / _cby Walter Dean Myers.
250			_aFirst paperback printing , October 2002
260			_aNew York : _bScholastic, _c2001
300			_a139 pages : _billustrations ; _c20 cm.
490			_a My Name is America (11), My Story, Dear America Collections (My Name Is America: Civil Rights, 1948)
505			_aZ
520			_aTeenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
521			_a920 _bLexile
521			_aZ _bRaz-Plus
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _vJuvenile fiction.
650		1	_aBaseball _vFiction.
650		1	_aNegro Leagues _vFiction.
650		1	_aAfrican Americans _vFiction.
650		1	_aSegregation _vFiction.
650		1	_aPrejudices _vFiction.
650		1	_aDiaries _vFiction.
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