A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner

Sports & Recreation - Baseball & Softball.

He is the author of many children’s picture books including the Margaret Wise Brown Prize winning Marvelous Cornelius, the Texas Bluebonnet Award winning Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy, Martina & Chrissie, Twenty-One Elephants, and The Soccer Fence. A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los. His latest book is the groundbreaking, OwnVoices middle grade novel, A High Five for Glenn Burke.

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Soon he tells his best friend, Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseball teammates, the more he suspects they know something's up―especially when he stages one big cover-up with terrible consequences.Ī High Five for Glenn Burke is Phil Bildner's most personal novel yet―a powerful story about the challenge of being true to yourself, especially when not everyone feels you belong on the field. I said goodbye to my dad last summer on July 16.

Burke was a gay baseball player in the 1970s―and for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward revealing a truth about himself he's tired of hiding. A High Five For Dad, A High Five For Glenn Burke My dad will never read my new middle grade novel, A High Five for Glenn Burke. When sixth grader Silas Wade does a school presentation on former Major Leaguer Glenn Burke, it's more than just a report about the irrepressible inventor of the high five. A heartfelt and relatable novel from Phil Bildner, weaving the real history of Los Angeles Dodger and Oakland Athletic Glenn Burke-the first professional baseball player to come out as gay-into the story of a middle-school kid learning to be himself. A High Five for Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner Edition Hardcover edition Publisher Macmillan Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN 9780374312732 Awards and Honors 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist 12.90 10.