Mayfield Crossing

By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

Subjects: Baseball, fiction, Race relations, fiction, Prejudices, Schools, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Race relations, Prejudices, fiction, Schools, Baseball

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.