Coming Home: A Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter
by Nanette Mellage, Cornelius Van Wright, and Ying-Hwa Hu
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- Grade
- PK-2
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Picture Book
- Sports
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 1999
Word Count 1,119
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 840L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.2
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 46973, 0.5 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Negro leagues
- Baseball players
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Gibson, Josh, 1911-1947
- Negro leagues--Juvenile literature
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Baseball & Softball
- African Americans
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Sports & Recreation
- Baseball players--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- United States
- Gibson, Josh
- African Americans--Biography
- Gibson, Josh, 1911-1947--Juvenile literature
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Carter G. Woodson Book Award, 1974-2024
Winner, 2002
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