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Summary: Robin and his friends are planning to dress up as pirates for their school's annual costume party, but instead his mother creates a Robinson Crusoe costume for him, and while the adults love it, his friends are less welcoming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SISRobinson, Sarah Cooper
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Publisher / Publication Date: S.C. Robinson 1967
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-Gen 929.2 ROBINSON RobinsonSummary: In graphic novel format, presents the life and achievements of the baseball player who became the first African American to play in the major leagues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Pub. 2008
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Hist Graph RobinsonDefoe, Daniel
Summary: As the sole survivor of a shipwreck, an Englishman lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEFRobinson, Edwin Arlington
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 ROBMiles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Contents: Buriedfed -- Debtor -- Woodfriend -- Who's laughing? -- Ongoing debate concerning present vs. future -- My good luck -- Written over -- Mountaineerd -- Above the sun -- Boneindian
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Say Hey Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BENMara, Wil.
Summary: When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers he became the fir st African American to play on a white Major League Baseball team. Read about how Robinson changed the face of baseball when he broke the color barrier and opened the door for the non-white players that followed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROBGregory, Josh
Summary: As the first African American ever to play for a major league baseball team, Jackie Robinson helped change race relations in America forever. Readers will learn about Robinson’s early success as a versatile athlete and the difficulties he faced in an era of widespread prejudice and segregation. The will also find out how he came to break pro baseball’s color barrier and how he used his fame to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROBDefoe, Daniel
Summary: Robinson Crusoe runs away to sea, is shipwrecked, and leads a solitary existence on an uninhabited island near the Orinoco River for twenty-four years. He meets the difficulties of primitive life with ingenuity and at length finds a companion in a native whom he saves from cannibals.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEFDefoe, Daniel
Summary: In 1659, after becoming the sole survivor of a shipwreck, Englishman Robinson Crusoe lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2011
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Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Charing Cross Music 1968
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMHoena, B. A.
Summary: "In an era of discrimination, Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's race barrier. Facing harassment, he stayed focused on the game, becoming the MLB Rookie of the Year in 1947 and later a baseball legend"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROBSummary: Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JACCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JACDefoe, Daniel
Summary: During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEFDefoe, Daniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Book Publishers 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DEFDefoe, Daniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEFDefoe, Daniel
Summary: On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEFRobinson, Rachel
Summary: In the spring of 1947, Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking down baseball's decades-old color line and changing the face of the game forever. Now, in this intimate portrait, Robinson's widow, Rachel, tells her husband's story - and that of her life with him - from her unique perspective. But the tale of Jackie Robinson doesn't begin and end with baseball. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.357 ROBWyss, Johann
Summary: Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE WYSHarris, Duchess
Summary: "In 1947, black baseball player Jackie Robinson broke through Major League Baseball's color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson Breaks Barriers examines this historic event from multiple perspectives, including those of Robinson himself, his wife, Rachel, and broadcaster Red Barber. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 796.357092 HARMeltzer, Brad.
Summary: "Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. He could run, leap, and throw better than any other kid around. But he lived at a time when the rules weren't fair to African Americans: Even though Jackie was a great athlete, he wasn't allowed on the best teams just because of the color of his skin. Jackie knew that sports were best when everyone, of every color, played together. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I Am RobinsonWyss, Johann David
Summary: When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their "New Switzerland" using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WYSRobinson, Holly
Summary: Robinson tells the warm and comic story of her father's peculiar obsession as a gerbil farmer, and of her own life growing up as one of the "employees" in his oddly thriving, sometimes exasperating, often humorous venture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2009