Journal Of Biddy Owens

I read the Adventure book Michigan Chillers Mayhem on Mackinac Island by Johnathan Rand. This book has 170 pages. According to Amazon a customer said “i love this book SO MUCH! it is the best!” I think that the intended audience for this book is 1st-6th graders because a first grader that is smart can read this book, and a 7th grader would not like this book because it is too easy for them.

Jackie Robinson changed baseball forever the instant he stepped on the field. “Robinson broke the color barrier in sport that had been geregated for more than 50 years(History.com)”. “His awe-inspiring performances helped integrate all of baseball(amhistory.si.edu)”. With his spirit and attitude he didn’t change just baseball, but also the racism in America. He brought hope to African Americans, by showing that dreams can be accomplished.

The book that I read was One Shot at Forever by Chris Ballard. This book is about a small town, Macon, and in this small town is a baseball program under the coaching of Mr. Sweet. Mr. Sweet and the players go on a journey playing baseball throughout Illinois.

For baseball, Negro League baseball was a US$2 million business in the 1940s. Many White teams and managers smelled the money and thought that Black players could help them win games and bring in more fans. An early example of this integration was Branch Rickey signing Jackie Robinson to play for MLB. After that, MLB started to grab talented Black players from the Negro Leagues, and, as a result, Negro Leagues disappeared. White managers and MLB benefited financially from the integration, but Black teams and managers lost their fans and jobs. Although Black athletes gained access to compete in professional sports, they were still discriminated by the management and “were frequently subjected to the racial insults of fans.” (Davis, 19) In terms of the education system, Brown v. Board of Education declared segregation unconstitutional, but desegregation was not comfortable for many Black people either. “With the integration of schools, Black schools were dismantled, and the biggest casualties were Black teachers and administrators.” (Smith, Harrison Jr., and Brown, 16) This one-way integration of Black students going into “White” schools also gave the Whites controls to fire Black teachers and principals. “Black adults lost jobs and White teachers gained access to an entire segment of Black students that provided jobs.” (Smith, Harrison Jr., and Brown, 16) For White students, they still got their “private” education resources as they moved to suburban schools or private schools. Thus, the reintegration of the education system benefitted White adults financially and put many Black people out of work while keeping the White students pretty much

There were a total of 8 leagues with the Negro American League lasting the longest from 1937-1960 for a total of 23 years with a total of 74 teams over 8 leagues. The Negro Leagues end came in 1960 but the writing was on the wall starting in 1947 when Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. The Negro league even had 3 of those 74 teams based in Toledo, OH the Crawfords, Rays, and the Tigers all called Toledo home. But the most well know team is the Kansas City Monarchs, it was the longest running team in the negro leagues as they played for a total of 37 seasons. The Monarchs were “Winners of more than a dozen league championships, the Monarch name became the Negro League's answer to the New York Yankees.” But the Monarchs main claim to fame and what they will be remembered most for is Jackie Robinson he played only one season for the Monarchs before he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers. In the end there was no true number of how many negro league players moved on to play Major League

A caged animal. That is all Jaycee Dugard was to Phillip and Nancy Garrido. Phillip and Nancy stripped the sense of normalcy to Jaycee’s life. Jaycee was 11 when she was abducted. She was never able to look forward to her first day of high school.

Of mice and men is a particularly good book, not only because it's small and can fit easily into my backpack,

My favorite book that we read in class was Junot Diaz’s The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. This book included elements of immigration, questions commonly held assumptions about masculinity, explores themes of racial and national identity, and also contain traditional genres of nerddom. The plot was interesting because even though Oscar ends up dying for love in the end of the book, it can be sympathized and related to, unlike Romeo’s and Juliet’s deaths for love. Diaz created characters that brought humor, earnestness, and nerdiness that readers in the 21st century can identify with. It was an engaging book that told a unique story that made me want to continue reading until the

I thought “Memoirs Of Henry Obookiah” to be a very captivating book that I liked. It definitely did not have much action or romance like I would usually prefer, but it worded the life of Henry Obookiah very well. The book was published in 1819, so the way the author wrote was very enthralling.

There was even dispute among the black and white people. The black people were fighting for justice against unequal treatment.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck would be a good book for historians to read because it is a primary source from the dust bowl. The dialogue in this book is hard to read, which is why children shouldn’t read it. It is a slow read, with lots of detail which has lots of potential to bore many. If you are planning on reading this book, make sure to reserve a lot of time for reading this. It is also very biased, so make sure to prevent this book from influencing your opinions. It is not a particularly fun book to read, so when (and if, because it is so hard and painful) you finish reading it, it will just sit in your bookshelf, collecting dust.

A really interesting book that I read over the summer was “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. C.S. Lewis a christian writer that has written many books,but he is mostly known for this series. He really was a Christian fiction writer and he wrote tons of books even before this one. He had a whole collection of books that most people haven’t heard of, but sadly what comes has to go, C.S Lewis died November 22, 1963

The book I selected to read was “The Diary of Anne Frank”. This story was about a happy girl who celebrated her birthday on June 12, 1942 with her family. As a gift, she got a diary. In the diary, she shared an amazing story about her thoughts and feelings because she had no friends to share them with. Although she has a big family, she still feels like no one listens to her and like she gets no attention.

It doesn't have to be a writing book. Any book that inspires you or makes you forget writer's block is a good book.

While I can’t pick my favorite book I can recall the books that ignited that passion. Barbara Parks’s “Junie B Jones” was the first book series I read on my own, and I promptly fell in love with reading. The books made me laugh and I related profoundly to Junie B.’s plight. Ever since I’ve been an avid reader, leaning toward books with protagonists with whom I can relate.