Loving baseball as a sport and know about Jackie Robison and his legacy this book was one that I enjoyed. It captured important things about Jackie Robison. It is a great bibliography to read especially for reader that love sports. Not just loving sports will you be hooked into reading about Jackie Robinson. This show his legacy and the things he had to through during the times were it was hard to live because of his skin color.

Stealing home is a biography of Jackie Robinson. The story tells of his struggles and successes in major league baseball in the mid-1940s. The struggles came in the form of humiliation and ridicule from baseball and fans, his teammates, and other ball player. He had to prove himself repeatedly until the Dodgers won the World Series while he played for them. The illustrations are colorful oil paintings that show Jackie playing baseball.
Personal reflection:
I enjoyed the storyline; however, it was hard to read in the format that it was writer. At the top of the page, there was a brief description what is going on in the ball game, under that facts are written about Jackie Robinson. These fact are written in a brown box with a darker brown text, this make it hard to read, and because of this I struggled through the book. I would recommend this book to a young man or girl, who likes baseball to encourage their love of reading.
Extension Ideas:
I would like to have the student to write about something that they are good at, such as dance, football, basketball, soccer and so on.
I would like the students to draw pictures showing themselves doing their favorite sport.
As a class project I would have the students bring in pictures of themselves that we can copy and make a scrapbook of their lives up to today. ( )

Amazon Kid's Review:
This review is from: Stealing Home: The Story Of Jackie Robinson (Scholastic Biography) (Paperback)
The beginning of this book starts off with the childhood of Jackie Robinson. His childhood was hard because it said that his mom had a hard time making money because she was a single mother and she was African American. His childhood was also hard because he got into a lot of fights in his neighborhood. He was the best athlete in this neighborhood. Then he becomes better know as an athlete during high school. For his first year of college he went to a small junior college then he got a lot of scholarships. He took one close to home, UCLA. He was a star athlete in all sports. During college he met his future wife, Rachel. After college he joined the army. In he army he trained to be a lieutenant in the Officer's Candidate School. After the army he joined the Negro Leagues. He was on the Kansas City Monarchs. He had to travel a lot, which Rachel didn't like. Then Branch Rickey, the manager for the major league team Brooklyn Dodgers, wanted a black athlete on his team. So he sent out a lot of scouts and one found Jackie. So Rickey drafted Jackie and they talked about what they were doing then Jackie was the first African American in the Major Leagues. Those were the highlights of Jackie Robinson's life.

I liked this book because it showed how it was really hard to be a black person back then. It was even harder for Jackie because he had to deal with pretty much every body hating him because he was black. I also liked it because Jackie Robinson came over the odds and became this is black in the Major Leagues. ( )

This book is one of my favorites because it is aboout one of my favorie baseball players Jackie Robinson. This book has great pictures and great words in the book that truly symobolize Jackie Robinson the first black baseball player. I would defiantly read this book to my students to show students how important Jackie Robinson is.

This book was all about the life of baseball and how Jackie Robinson made an impact in baseball. I thought that the book was neat since I really did not know some of the tidbits on baseball as in the book it has a box that highlights Jackie Robinson's career. I also liked it since my husband enjoyed reading the book also.

I enjoyed the book and the group of girls that I read to really seemed to enjoy it. Our family is really active in sports and baseball and softball are a big part of summer activities. Just getting to find out small facts that i did not know about Jackie Robinson.

Extension ideas are to take the students to a ball game or a hall of fame, play a baseball game at recess or after school, work on a biography of someone the class admires or about a person in their favorite sport.