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Testing the ice

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Sharon Robinson, the daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson, has crafted a hearwarming, true story about growing up with her father. When Jackie Robinson retires from baseball and moves his family to Connecticut, the beautiful lake on their property is the center of everyone's fun. The neighborhood children join the Robinson kids for swimming and boating. But oddly, Jackie never goes near the water. In a dramatic episode that first winter, the children beg to go ice skating on the lake. Jackie says they can go ? but only after he tests the ice to make sure it's safe. The children prod and push to get Jackie outside, until hesitantly, he finally goes. Like a blind man with a stick, Jackie taps on the ice's surface, when suddenly howling and roaring sounds come out of the lake! It is only then that Sharon realizes why she's never seen her father in the water ? Jackie doesn't know how to swim! But her horror changes to relief as Jackie bravely taps his way to the middle of the lake ? and declares it safe!

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Detail Information

Series Title

-Q Level-800L

Call Number

GRL EL 927 ROB t

Publisher

New York : Scholastic.,

Collation

40 p. : ill. ; 11 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780545285483

Classification

927

Content Type

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Media Type

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Carrier Type

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Edition

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Subject(s)

Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
Baseball
Courage

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Statement of Responsibility

Sharon Robinson.

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