EllRay Jakes stands tall!

By Sally Warner

Subjects: Basketball stories, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Body image, Basketball, Basketball, fiction, Schools, fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship, Fiction, Children's fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / United States / African American, Teachers, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Teachers, Schools, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Siblings

Description: Eight-year-old EllRay Jakes, the shortest kid in class and still chosen last at recess, hones his basketball skills with Mr. Havens and earns the respect of his third-grade classmates.