Finding Buck McHenry

Alfred Slote

About this book

Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack Henry to be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro League, tries to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team by revealing his identity to the world.

Subjects

  • african americans
  • african americans, fiction
  • afro-americans
  • baseball
  • baseball, fiction
  • baseball stories
  • blacks
  • children's fiction
  • fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • reading level-grade 3
  • reading level-grade 4
  • reading level-grade 5