Playing Games (Amy Hodgepodge, #4)
Illustrator
Soo Jeong
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Publication Year
2008
ISBN
9780448448985
Pages
105 pages
Genre
realism
Format
chapter book
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Amy realizes her dream of playing sports when she joins the basketball league, and secret practices with Rusty improve her skills but her friends, believing she still plays badly, will not pass her the ball.
Grade Level
P-1; K-3
Lexile Measure
590L
Diversity Topics
Culture/Ethnicity; Racial Diversity; Multicultural; Multiethnic; Multiracial; Interracial; multiple cultures; multicultural child; multicultural family; multiple ethnicities; multiracial child; multiracial family; interracial family; interracial parents; interracial friendship; mixed race
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
Asian (Japanese; Korean) / Black (African American) / White
Family Formation
mother and father
Keywords
basketball; sports; team; teamwork; dreams; charter school; improvement; friendship
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Wayans, Kim and Knotts, Kevin, "Playing Games (Amy Hodgepodge, #4)" (2008). Diverse Families. 1814.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1814