HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Maraniss, Andrew, author.
Subjects
Burke, Glenn -- Juvenile literature.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American baseball players -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Gay athletes -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Maraniss, Andrew, author.
by title:
Singled out : the tr...
MARC Display
Singled out : the true story of Glenn Burke / Andrew Maraniss.
by
Maraniss, Andrew, author.
New York : Philomel Books, 2021.
Subjects
Burke, Glenn -- Juvenile literature.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American baseball players -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Gay athletes -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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.
Requests:
0
Summary:
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.
Audience:
Grades 7-9. Philomel Books.
Ages 12 up. Philomel Books.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Aina Haina Public Library
YA -- Biography
B Burke Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hawaii State Library
YA -- Nonfiction
796.35709 Burke Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library
YA -- Nonfiction
796.35709 Maraniss
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kapolei Public Library
YA -- Biography
Burke Ma
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.