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Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Team That Awakened a City
By Phillip Hoose
Edition
By Phillip Hoose
Hardcover edition
Publisher Macmillan Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN9780374306120
Awards and Honors 2019 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Honor, Secondary Level <br> ALSC Notable Children's Books - 2019 <br> Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - 2019 <br> MRLS Cream of the Crop - 2019 <br> <i>CCBC Choices</i> 2019 Choice: Historical People, Places, and Events <br> <i>Booklist</i> Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth - 2018 <br> CSMCL Best Books - 2018 <br> <i>Kirkus</i> Best Books, Young Adult - 2018 <br> NYPL Best Books for Teens - 2018 <br> BCCB Blue Ribbons - 2018Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Team That Awakened a City
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The 1955 Crispus Attucks Tigers were from an Indianapolis high school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in Indiana. They shattered the myth of their own inferiority, winning the state basketball boys' championship. Author's note. Biographical notes on the basketball players mentioned in the book. Sources. Endnotes. Index. Black-and-white photographs and reproductions.
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