LEARN & DISCOVER

Find activities and resources to complement your museum field trip or classroom instruction.

PRE-VISIT GAME Play our kahoot! game before YOUR visit

ELEMENTARY GRADES

• Host a game for your class
  (students use individual devices to answer)
• Play against other classes
  (play as a team from one classroom device)

 

MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL

• Host a game for your class
  (students use individual devices to answer; Login may be required)
• Play against other classes
  (play as a team from one classroom device)

PREVIEW YOUR VISIT SOCIAL NARRATIVE

Go over the Museum field trip experience with your class ahead of your visit.

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READING LIST

PICTURE BOOKS FOR EARLY ELEMENTARY

• Jackie Robinson by Philip Abraham (2003)
• Jackie Robinson by David A. Adler (2005)
• What’s your story, Jackie Robinson? by Emma Carlson Berne (2005)
• My little golden book about Jackie Robinson by Frank Berrios and Betsy Bauer (2018)
• Stealing Home by Robert Burleigh (2007)
• Young Jackie Robinson: Baseball Hero by Edward Farrell and Dennis Stuart (2006)
• Teammates by Peter Golenbock (1990)
• Graphic Biography Jackie Robinson (2008)
• Jackie and Me: A Very Special Friendship by Tania Grossinger (2013)
• Jackie Robinson (Cobblestone Publishing, 2000)
• Play ball, Jackie! by Stephen Krensky and Joe Morse (2015)
• Jackie’s bat by Marybeth Lorbiecki (2006)
• Jackie Robinson by Wil Mara (2002)
• The Negro Leagues by Gregory N. Peters (2014)
• Always, Jackie by Ron Rabinovitz, J. Patrick Lewis, and John Thompson (2020)
• Jackie Robinson: American Hero by Sharon Robinson (2013)
• Testing the ice: A true story about Jackie Robinson by Sharon Robinson (2009)
• Jackie’s gift by Sharon Robinson and E. B. Lewis (2010)

CHAPTER BOOKS FOR UPPER ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL

• Barrier Breaker #1: Jackie Robinson, by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, a comic developed by the NYCDOE Civics for All and Social Studies teams. Download at WeTeachNYC.org.
• The official Baseball Hall of Fame story of Jackie Robinson by Mark Alvarez (2005)
• Breaking Barriers: The Story of Jackie Robinson (Tangled History) by Michael Burgan (2018)
• Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball by Laurie Collier Hillstrome (2013)
• In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord (1984)
• 42 is not just a number by Doreen Rappaport (2019)
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (2020)
• Child of the Dream by Sharon Robinson (2019)
• The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend by Sharon Robinson (2016)
• Jackie’s Nine: Jackie Robinson’s Values to Live By by Sharon Robinson (2002)
• Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America by Sharon Robinson (2004)
• Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long (2022)

BOOKS FOR HIGH SCHOOL AND UP

• Black Baseball, 1858-1900 by James E. Brunson (2019)
• It’s Good to be Alive by Roy Campanella (1995)
• Two Pioneers: How Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson Transformed Baseball and America by Robert C. Cottrell (2012)  
• Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream by Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund (1998)
• Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season by Jonathan Eig (2007)
• What I Learned from Jackie Robinson by Carl Erskine (2005)
• After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice, and Baseball’s Forgotten Heroes by Cal Fussman (2007)
• Bums: An Oral History of the Brooklyn Dodgers by Peter Golenbock (2010)
• Rickey & Robinson by Roger Kahn (2014)
• Jackie and Campy: The Untold Story of their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball’s Color Line by William C. Kashatus (2014)
• Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training by Chris Lamb (2004)
• Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life After Baseball by Michael G. Long (2013)
• First Class Citizenship: The Civil Rights Letters of Jackie Robinson by Michael G. Long (2007)
• Branch Rickey: Baseball’s Ferocious Gentleman by Lee Lowenfish (2009)
• Jackie Robinson in Quotes, edited by Danny Peary (2016)
• Jackie Robinson: A Biography by Arnold Ramersad (1998)
• Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game by Rob Ruck (2011)
• Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball by Scott Simon (2002)
• The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America: The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, edited by Lyle Spats, ed. (2012)
• Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy by Jules Tygiel (1997)
• Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History by Jules Tygiel (2002)
• Jackie Robinson and the American Dilemma (Library of American Biography) by John R. M. Wilson (2009)
• Jackie Robinson and Race in America: A Brief History with Documents by Thomas W. Zeiler (2013)

BOOKS BY JACKIE AND RACHEL ROBINSON

• I Never Had it Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, with introductions by Hank Aaron and Cornel West. (2004)
• Baseball Has Done It by Jackie Robinson, with an introduction by Spike Lee (2005)
• Jackie Robinson: In Intimate Portrait by Rachel Robinson with Lee Daniels. Foreword by Roger Wilkins. (1996)
• Wait Till Next Year: The Story of Jackie Robinson by Carl Rowan and Jackie Robinson (1960)