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  • Burke, Glenn -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • Baseball players -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • African American baseball players -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • Gay athletes -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
     
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    Singled out : the true story of Glenn Burke / Andrew Maraniss.
    by Maraniss, Andrew, author.
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    New York : Philomel Books, 2021.
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  • Burke, Glenn -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Baseball players -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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  • African American baseball players -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Gay athletes -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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  • African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
  • ISBN: 
    9780593116722 (hardcover) :
    0593116720 (hardcover) :
    Description: 
    308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    Contents: 
    Joy and pain -- Top of the heap -- Heart's desire -- Bushrod king -- Hot stuff -- Money talks -- God's gift to baseball -- Truth or dare -- Bad blood -- Unforgettable -- Living in a closet -- Glistening -- Cup of coffee -- On fire -- Open secret -- Hands up -- Big blue wrecking crew -- Indecent proposal -- Blackballed -- Superfreaky -- Signature moment -- Unraveling -- Disco inferno -- Don't call it a comeback -- Top dog -- Russian river -- Got to let it show -- Ground Zero for the plague -- The crushing blow -- The terror of knowing -- No burden is he -- Monumental.
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    Tells the true story of Glenn Burke, the inventor of the high five and the first openly gay MLB player: from his childhood growing up in Oakland, his journey to the MLB and the World Series, the joy in discovering who he really was, to more difficult times: facing injury, addiction, and the AIDS epidemic. -- adapted from inside front jacket flap.
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    Grades 7-9. Philomel Books.
    Ages 12 up. Philomel Books.
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    Aina Haina Public LibraryYA -- BiographyB Burke MaChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Hawaii State LibraryYA -- Nonfiction796.35709 Burke MaChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Hilo Public LibraryYA -- Nonfiction796.35709 MaranissChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
    Kapolei Public LibraryYA -- BiographyBurke MaChecked InAdd Copy to MyList


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