Sports Reading - Elementary/Intermediate Grades
Non Fiction:
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Fiction:
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Baseball Saved Us. 1995. Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee. A picture book about playing baseball in the internment camps during World War II, based on historical accounts. Grades 3-5
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Be Water, My Friend: The Early Years of Bruce Lee. Ken Mochizuki. 2006. Young Bruce Lee grows up in Hong Kong. There are some complaints about the inaccuracy of the martial arts stances in the drawings. Grades 4-5
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. Bette Bao Lord and Marc Simont. 2003. An immigrant girl meets Jackie Robinson. The story is a bit far-fetched and contains very little information about Jackie Robinson. Grades 3-6
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Who Was Bruce Lee? Jim Gigliotti. 2014. Good descriptions and illustrations of the places and and media that shaped the martial arts icon. This is clear and readable. Grades 4-6.
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The Great Wall of Lucy Wu. Wendy Wan-Long Shang. 2013 The main character wants to play basketball, unlike her high achieving academic siblings. Her great aunt comes to live with them, and Lucy develops a marginally better understanding of being bicultural. Grades 4-6.
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Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story. Paula Yoo and Dom Lee. A Korean boy learns to dive when pools were segregated and eventually wins an Olympic Gold Medal in 1948. Grades 4–6
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Surfer of the Century. Ellie Crowe. 2007. Duke Kahanamoku’s struggles to overcome racism to earn world wide fame with colorful pictures. Grades 4 -6
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