Children's Fiction Prejudice & Racism
Night Golf
- Publisher
- Lee & Low Books
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2002
- Category
- Prejudice & Racism
- Recommended Age
- 7 to 10
- Recommended Grade
- 2 to 5
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781584300564
- Publish Date
- Nov 2002
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
James loves sports, but he's too short for basketball and too small for football. However, he finds an old golf club one day, and quickly realizes that golf comes naturally to him.
When James goes to the town's golf course to learn more about the game, he discovers that only white people can play. In fact, African Americans are allowed onto the course only as caddies, carrying the heavy bags. Thinking fast on his feet, James applies to become a caddy.
James is worried that he'll never get to play. Then he meets another African American caddy and learns that there is a way: to play at night.
Based on the true stories of many African American golfers of the late 1950s, Night Golf reveals a little-known part of American sports history. It is also a timely reminder that the love of the game was once hard-won by some before it was enjoyed by many.
About the authors
William Miller has written many highly-acclaimed children�s books including Golf Night, a Parent�s Choice Award Gold Medal winner, and Zora Hurston and the Cranberry Tree, a Reading Rainbow featured title. Miller lives in York, Pennsylvania, where he teaches creative writing and African American literature at York College.
Cedric Lucas is the illustrator of Night Golf and Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery (Lee & Low, 1995). He is also a contributing illustrator to America: My Land, Your Land, Our Land. He teaches art to middle school students in Bronx, NY, and lives in Yonkers, New York, with his wife and their two children.
Other titles by
A House by the River
Joe Louis
My Champion
Rent Party Jazz
Joe Louis, My Champion
Richard Wright Y El Carne De Biblioteca / Richard Wright and the Library Card (Spanish Edition)
Frederick Douglass
The Last Day of Slavery
Richard Wright and the Library Card
Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree
The Bus Ride
