From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 09:47:48 -0600

I'm glad to see that books by Walter Dean Myers were mentioned by Michelle. This is only one of the several genres in which Myers excels.

Myers' book Hoops is a genuine fictional representation of basketball and of an African American protagonist, and so is Slam!, one of his more recent young adult novels.

Myers also wrote Me, Mop and the Moondance Kid and Mop, Moondance and the Nagasaki Knights. How do kids respond to these two baseball novels for younger readers? Do girls read them as well as boys? ...Ginny
************************************************************ Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706 USA CCBC Phone: 608&3721
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