Mayfield Crossing

By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Baseball, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, School attendance, fiction, Children's fiction, Prejudices, Race relations, African americans, fiction, Schools, Baseball stories

Description: When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for drawing people together.