Jackie & Me (Baseball Card Adventures)

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This is it! Being a mother and a teacher, I have always wished my son would be more interested in reading. Finally I have found a book that Evan is enjoying so much that I have ordered another book from this series before he has finished this one. Bravo Dan Gutman!

Although I haven't read Jackie and me, I feel like I have. My son has been saying quite frequently, "Hey, listen to this." The book presents the unfair treatment of African Americans in a way that involves the reader. Evan has been told many times about slavery, segregation, and civil rights. He understood the information, but,until now I think he felt no empathy for those who were treated so unfairly.

If you have a child who enjoys baseball--get this book. Dan Gutman, thank you so much.

What a joy to read this book to my six-year old son, Matt! It was his first chapter book. He was captivated by the story of a boy who travels back in time to meet Jackie Robinson. The young protagonist (Joe Stoshack) experiences racism firsthand and learns a very valuable lesson by Robinson's example. A well-written, engaging book especially for kids who love baseball.

Following up on his successful Honus & Me, Gutman has brought back time traveling Joe Stoshack. This time, he goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson-and when he arrives, Joe is an African American kid. Gutman uses this plot technique to show the reader the kinds of prejudice Robinson endured. In turn, Robinson teaches Joe, through example, that no one can make you feel inferior without your permission. The story is simple yet rewarding, a good bet for a reluctant reader who loves baseball or collects sports cards.

The continuation of a series that is hitting .400

For my book report I chose to read a book about Jackie Robinson. This book was entitled Jackie & Me, written by Dan Gutman.

In this book�s introduction, Joe Stoshack explains that he has a very special talent. When Joe holds a baseball card in his hands he can travel back in time. Later in the book, this talent becomes very useful when Joe has to write a history report on an African-American who made the world a better place. For his report, Joe decides to go back in time to meet Jackie Robinson. He wanted to meet Jackie because he loved sports and knew a great deal about baseball. Joe also wanted to understand what it felt like to be the first black man in professional baseball.

Joe leaves Louisville, Kentucky, and is transported back into Jackie�s time. He soon arrives in front of Macy�s in New York, on April 14th, 1947 and finds he has become black. Joe was soon introduced to Jackie. Joe was invited to sleep on Jackie�s couch because Joe helped a good friend of Jackie�s after he had been attacked with a broken bottle. Eventually, Joe is accidentally made a batboy for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson�s team. At first, Joe was nervous and scared that he was a black kid. He was treated badly by the white boys. He soon learned how difficult it was to be a black person, and how badly it feels to be made fun of for being black.

Joe soon understands the pain and frustration Jackie felt being a black man among all white team-mates. Jackie was sent threatening letters, called bad names, and treated very rudely and unkindly. Jackie Robinson was brave and strong, he refused to fight back and he refused to quit. The other players didn't want to be Jackie's friend, and they often ignored him altogether. One day, Pee Wee Reese started joking with Jackie. During the baseball game, Reese put his arm around Jackie and the crowd gasped in shock because it was the first time a white player had shown affection for a black player.

[...]Joe wrote a very informative and sensitive report about Jackie Robinson. He explained all the discrimination and segregation that Jackie had to endure. Joe learned that Jackie was a talented, dignified, and an honorable ball player, who eventually became well liked, admired, and respected.

Dan Gutman has discovered a way to engage readers and educate them at the same time. Using time travel by means of a baseball card, he takes his character, Joe, back to significant events in sports history. As Joe interacts with players of other times, the reader learns more than just statistics. In Jackie and Me, we experience the true struggles of Jackie Robinson as he became the first black major league baseball player. This novel would be a wonderful supplemental textbook for students and teachers studying this time in our history. It teaches without preaching.

With Jackie and Me, Dan Gutman has improved upon the idea he started with Honus and Me. Joe Stoshack is still travelling through time via baseball cards, but for this book he experiences one of the great events of the 20th Century: Jackie Robinson breaking the baseball color barrier. Gutman also presents Robinson as a great role model for Joe and real kids like him who have trouble understanding that real strength is often shown through the ability to ignore ignorance, or by confronting it with talent and truth instead of fists.

I am 10 years old and I like to read sports books.One of the best sports books ever that I have ever read is is Jackie and Me.This book is about a kid who goes back to 1947 to see Jackie Robinson. When Joe went back to 1947 to see Jackie Robinson it was the year that he broke the color barrier.Read this book to see if Joe and Jackie becomes friends.I liked this book because it is a sports book and I like Jackie Robinson.I could never put the book down because it was so awesome.

This is a very good book, that shows how hard it was for Jackie Robinson and many other African American baseball players to get into the major leagues during the 1960's and before.

I liked the book Jackie & Me because I love baseball and I am a Jackie Robinson fan. This book wasn't just about baseball, it was about how Jackie Robinson was a great example of character and belief in himself. I learned it wasn't easy being black in 1940, and Jackie overcame great odds by becoming the first black player in the Major Leagues. He was treated with disrespect by his teammates, other teams and the fans, but he never reacted in anger. He proved himself by showing what a great player he was.

Jackie & Me is about a boy named Joe Stoshack who can use baseball cards to travel through time! So, he goes on a adventure to get information on a black baseball player. Who is Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player! Now he needs the imformation for his Black history Month report. Also how is he going to get the card to travel back through time? Find out in this great book by Dan Gutman Jackie & Me!

Jackie & Me by Dan Gutman is a very good book. It tells the story of a kid, Joe Stoshack, who can use baseball cards to travel through time. One day, Joe decides he wants to go back to 1947 when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball. He wants to know what it was like for Jackie and his family to go through this hard time of racism and prejudice. But little does Joe know he going to learn, first hand, what its like to be a black person in the 1940s. He goes through the tough times of people calling him nasty racial slurs, to people who could care less if he was black or white, to being chased by a crazy kid with a bat through the busy streets of Brooklyn. Learn what happens to Joe and Jackie in this great and exilarting book: Jackie & Me.

Would you like to travel back in time to meet Jackie Robinson, to 1947, to a time when segregation was ending? Read the book Jackie and Me to find out. Josh traveled back in time and became a black. He had to feel how blacks were treated. Everyone treated him differently. He had to lie that he was the new batboy in order to meet Jackie Robinson, to get facts for his report. He lost the baseball card that would get him back to present time. Can he get back? You can find out about American history baseball style by reading Jackie and Me. I rate this book Jackie and Me five out of five stars for its history, the biography on Jackie Robinson, and its teaching about blacks and segregation.

Jackie And Me

The book is about a kid names Joe Stoshack. He has a book report in school and he does it on Jackie Robinson. So he goes back in time and learns about him and how they use to treat him because of his color. He gets back from the past and he gets a A on his report.

Joe can travel through time by using baseball cards. He traveled to the past to get information from Jackie Robinson. He got there and stayed at the Robinson house for a couple of days. He finds a lot of cards that were from 1947. He takes them all home and gets a lot of money from them. Me and Joe both love baseball a lot. We are different because he can travel through time and i can't.

I really liked this book. I liked it because it was about baseball. My favorite part was when he got to stay at Jackie Robinson's house. I would recommend this book to someone that loved baseball.

The book Jackie and Me is about baseball. I like the book because it's about baseball and Jackie Robinson is one of my favorite players. The kid in the book goes back in time when he finds a rookie card of Jackie Robinson. One thing that's bad is that Jackie gets picked on in baseball. However when the team sees how good Jackie really is, they start to be nice. The reason he's on the team is he was drafted and the first person to play in the major league baseball as a black person. The book Jackie and Me is for an adults, teens, girls and boys. I enjoyed the book except it was hard to read how he got picked on.

Tim Young
Jackie and Me
A Baseball Bananza Dan Gutman 2000

The book is adout a kid named Joe who is sent back to the 1947 and meets Jackie
Robinson. He travles with Jackie by beighing the Dodgers bat boy. this book is great and you wont want to put it down.
When Joe is going through time he wakes up as an african american and in the 1940s they are not beighing treated fairley. This book also points out that even though Jackie is a pro ball player,people still look down on him. this book has a biography and a kids book in one. I give this book an 8 out of 10.

Tim Young
Jackie and Me
A Baseball Bananza Dan Gutman 2000

The book is adout a kid named Joe who is sent back to the 1947 and meets Jackie
Robinson. He travles with Jackie by beginning the Dodgers bat boy. this book is great and you wont want to put it down.
When Joe is going through time he wakes up as an african american and in the 1940s they are not beginning treated fairly. This book also points out that even though Jackie is a pro ball player,people still look down on him. this book has a biography and a kids book in one. I give this book an 8 out of 10.

The book was about a boy who could use baseball cards to go back in time. In this story the boy goes back in time to see Jackie Robinson because he has to do a report on a famous African-American and he chose Jackie Robinson. Sometimes he thinks of what other people are treated like and sometimes he wants to see what they were treated like by dreaming of him being treated like them and ends up looking like the other person.

This is a very good book! A kid named Joe Stoshack gets suspended from Little League...indefinitely. He has a special "power" that enables him to go back in time with a baseball card. When his teacher assigns a report on an African-American who has "given" something to America, Joe goes back in time to meet Jackie Robinson, a famous baseball player. While Joe is in 1947, he not only learns about baseball, but also learns an important lesson. Baseball, adventure, excitment, suspense, all in all it is the best book I ever read.

I was happy witht he condition that this book was sent in. THough I was displeased to find makings on the inside cover of the book.

Jackie and Me is a book about a kid named Joe Stashack. He has the power to touch baseball cards and go back in time to when that card was printed. Joe is supposed to write an essay on African-American Heroes. He loves baseball so much he does his report on Jackie Robinson. There is also a contest where the best essay wins a trip to Kentucky Kingdom. Joe really wants to win. Joe goes to his favorite baseball card shop but they don't have a Jackie Robinson 1947 card. Jackie will break the color barrier which is not an actual barrier but it is the law, yet in 1947 he hasn't broken it yet. So they don't have the card, but they do have a Jackie Robinson 1947 signature. Joe is able to travel back through time and he learns something from Jackie. You must stay cool and do not use violence. This is a great book. -Andromeda Grade 5

The book I am reading is Jackie and Me. It is written by Dan Gutman. I think this book deserves five stars because it has real events but at the same time its fiction. It's about a kid who travels back in time to meet Jackie Robinson. But the next thing he knows he gets stuck back in time. So the next thing he tricked ant a bat boy to give his Ken Griffin Jr. Card back the key to get back to his time. He also wrote Babe and Me Honus and Me.

Jackie andme is the best baseball book ive ever read but the thing i hate about it isthere is a kid namedant whosi very negative and hecalls african americans bad names thatwe cant speak of but i would recomend the book if you like baseball.

This book was very powerful in climaxs and the segregation.As I read this I was mad at the terms and the abuse the african american people had to stand up to and in doing so were at risk of being killed.But at the same time I enjoyed hearing about the early 1900's ball players so i rate this book a 4 star book.

I purchased the book as a gift for my children. They love the series and have all of them. I highly recommend the series. It engages the minds of the readers in a fictional, imaginative way for those avid baseball lovers.

I enjoyed Jackie and me because, this book wasnt just on baseball, it was about proving yourself through your ability, not your languege or fists. Jackie went through being called bad words, players voting him off the team and hurting him, having pitches through at his head, and even threats on his family. And to still keep playing and bcoming one of the greats taught me to be a better person. this book was great and fun to read.

Have you ever read Jackie And Me by Dan Gutman? Well I have! It's about this kid named Joe Stoshack who has to write a report on an African American that contributed to society. So then he goes back in time to meet Jackie Robinson and learn about him. Some events in the book are that Joe travels back in time to the 1940's and meets Jackie. Joe becomes batboy and gets to know about Jackie.

The message in this is that jackie was the first African American to play in the MLB. And it didn't matter to him if he was Black,White,Green,Red,Blue, or any color. Plus he had hard times but he didn't care if people hated him or not. He led the Brooklyn Dodgers to their only World Series win,and he became part of the Hall Of Fame.

Some reasons why I like this book is because you can get a picture in your head about what you are reading. You should read this book if you like sports or baseball. If you like Dan Gutman who wrote some books like: Babe And Me,The Kid Who Ran For President,The Kid Who Became President,and The Million Dollar Shot, than you should read one of his books. If you like going back in time books or Jackie Robinson you should read Jackie And Me.

Jackie & Me
By: Dan Gutman
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The book Jackie & me is a great story by Dan Gutman it is about a boy names Joey who loves baseball and loves collecting baseball cards. But he has a unique ability to travel back in time using baseball cards. One day at school he gets assigned a project for researching about one famous African America. Joey decides to do Jackie Robinson for his project and wants to go back in time to meet him so he has to get a Jackie Robinson card he gets it from the local card shop owner named Flip and he gets ready to touch the card and go back in time when he does he arrives in 1947 Brooklyn not white though he turns black. He then meets a guy who is bleeding badly and helps him and the guy shows him where Jackie Robinson is and he sleeps in his house. He goes to the games with Jackie to support him in his season he gets called many curse words and his team also wants to get rid of him also joey becomes batboy for the dodgers and his partner ant his partner really hates him because he is black and almost kills him with a bat. Then Joey returned back home but then goes backto 1947 because he had some unfinished buisness but when goes back to 1947 he is a white kid again and meets Jackie again and his team is in the world series. He finally goes back home.
This book had alot of parts which I liked such as when Pee Wee Reese a teammate of Jackie Robinson tears up the letter that says to kick Jackie out of the team "He looked up at Walker said a few words, then tore up the sheet of paper and threw it in the trash." That i really liked because Pee Wee Reese really stuck up for Jackie and did not allow such a thing to happen. Also I like it when Joey plays ball with Jackie because no one was playing with him. "It was Jackie standing around looking uncomfortable while the others were playing catch" Joey then asks if he wants to play and they do.
This book also had many parts that I disliked such as when he receives that threatening note. " We have already got rid of several like you one was found in river just recently." I really did not like that because they were threatening Jackie because of his race. Another part I disliked was when Joey during his little league game when he hits the pitcher because he makes fun of him."I lost control I made a fist at the mound and charging." I really did not like that because you should not hit people in any game.
This story had a lot of good parts and bad parts but th best part of the book I think was when Jackie said " He wanted a player who had the guts not to fight back. Jackie does not want to fight back because if he does it will be about twenty years until African Amercians will get to play. You can see that Jacie really wants to save his race and wants it to be free. This concludes the summary of Jackie & Me

Imagine that you can travel through time with baseball cards. What would you do and were would you go? Well, a kid named Joe Stoshack can do that, in the amazing adventure of Jackie and Me by Dan Gutman. Go through the 1940s and spend a day with a famous African American named Jackie Robinson.
This is a story of a boy named Joe. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky and loves to play baseball as well as collect baseball cards. He occasionally stumbles upon rare baseball cards that he can use to travel back in time with. He was at his school and the teacher asked the kids to give an oral report about a famous African American. Joe loves baseball so he scanned down the list to see if there were any baseball players. He came to his amazement and saw that Jackie Robinson was on the list. Joe thought that it would be a piece of cake. He picked Jackie because he could travel back in time and meet him.
Joe has a temper problem because in one of the games he charged the mound and got kicked out for a few games. Joe meets Jackie and they talk and Jackie plays baseball. A couple of times Joe asked Jackie why he didn't charge the mound. Jackie said that it wasn't the right thing to do. Joe finally realizes what is wrong and what is right. He fixes his anger problem at the very end of the book.
If you enjoy this book you will like his other books as well. He has written a lot of different adventures books. He uses the same kid as well. This book is Jackie and Me
and the author is Dan Gutman. The other books that he has written are Mickey and Me, Babe and Me, and Honus and Me.

A Kid named Joe who gets assigned to write a paper for black history month. While he is reading through the list of famous black people he picks Jackie Robinson. He goes home and travels back in time to see Jackie Robinson play baseball. While he is in the past someone finds out that he is from the future. He told a cop and they were chasing after them and then you have to read the book to find out what is going to happen next. I think that this was a very good book especially if you like sports. Also you could read Babe & Me and Honus & Me.

Jackie and Me is a fiction book by: Dan Gutman. This book is about a boy named Joe Stoshack who's in the 6th grade and lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Joe has to do a report on a famous black person since Joe loves sports he decides to do his report on Jackie Robinson because, Joe can go back in time and meet people he does. All he has to do is get a card of Jackie Robinson and hold it to his chest and think of 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers Jackie Robinson.

Living in Kentucky and traveling back in time to New York is a big change for Joe Stoshack. When Joe travels back into time he has to be careful what he says because when he goes back in time to 1947 he says something about a VCR Jackie Robinson has no idea what going on a little arguing starts. Then Jackie comes back to 2006 and realizes there's no such thing as a VCR.
When Joe travels back to New York he's in for a thrill no one wants him there they all remember him as the kid who fought with Jackie Robinson.

The characters in this book are Joe Stoshack and Jackie Robinson otherwise known as The Greatest Baseball Legend of all time.
Joe is just like every other kid in his class except for the fact that he can go back in time his parents are the only people know that he can go back in time too. Joe LOVES sports especially baseball. When Joe goes back in to time he finds pretty interesting things out about Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson lived in Mcalpin hotel in New York Jackie had a baby named Jackie Jr. and a nice and obnoxious mother.

This story took place in Louisville Kentucky and also New York New York. Joe Stoshack lives in Kentucky and travels to New York. He has to make a big adjustment coming to the city and all. He actually meets Jackie Robinson and sleeps on his couch. Although baby Jackie Jr. keeps waking Joe he doesn't mind he enjoys seeing Jackie Robinson.

Overall I'd recommend this book to all those sporty people out there. It will truly inspire you to go for the gold and do your best, give 110%. Ya...... that's right I mean you.

I think this book is great because it teaches you to not judge people on what colored skin they have. You should judge people on what's inside of them. This book also tought me not just about baseball but also about how white people treated black people. The funny part in it was when he would talk about stuff from the future.

Eli G.

I liked this book beacause it's about the first black guy to go into the major leagues. He was very fast and stole home more than once which shocked people. Joe Stoshack goes back to Jackie's time in 1942 and watches Jackie play. He also see's what he does off the field. Joe finds out Jackie is a real good guy and had a hard childhood. Joe eats at Jackie's house and finds that he has it pretty easy in his real time.

In Jackie And Me,the first mane part is when Joe goes back in time to see how hard life was for Jackie Robinson

Are you a baseball fan?.Do you like baseball
cards?.Have you ever wish you could go back in
time?.Well you should want to read this book
call Jackie and me.This book takes you back in time,
when the great Jackie Robinson lived.

This book is about a kid name Joe ,he is abaseball card
collector.He uses the baseball cards to travels through
time.He goes to see Jackie Robinson for a class report
and talks with him.Read this book you are going to like it!
This is the best book i ever read.

By:Ronald

I would rate this Book amillion stars it's so good!

Book Review #2

Gutman, Dan. Jackie & Me. New York: Avon Books Inc., 1999. 145 pages.

Jackie & Me, by Dan Gutman is an outstandingly written book. It is
most likely targeted towards baseball fanatics as this fantasy consists of
a boy who uses rookie cards for time traveling. The story is about a boy
named Joe Stoshack who realizes a tingly sensation when he holds rookie
baseball cards. He then discovers that if he falls asleep holding the card,
he wakes up at the time the player was a rookie. In this book, Joe travels
back to 1947; the year the first Negroe, Jackie Robinson, played in the
majors. When he awakes, he finds himself a young black boy who lands in the
streets of Brooklyn. He sees a man, struggling and his left arm is baldy
hurt. The man says, "Name is Bankhead, Dan Bankhead." (27). Joe helps Dan
wrap up his arm and the man, a friend of Jackie's, leads Joe to Mr.
Robinson himself. Throughout his trip in 1947, Joe encounters many
different situations he isn't used to dealing with. This book is an
extremely accurate book and about 95 percent of the statistics given are
true. Jackie & Me, by Dan Gutman is a very well written book full of fun,
yet factual information about America's favorite pastime.

I thought this book was very very good for a lot of reasons. One reason is that it starts off by saying a boy can use baseball cards to travel back in time. How cool is that. I recommend this book baseball fans only because it talks a lot of baseball throughout the story. This is a great way to learn a little bit of facts about a lot of things. Go out and get it know folks.

Jackie and me is about Jackie Robinson the first black to play baseball in the big league. Joe Stoshack has to do a report on a famous black person who changed America. So he is going to do Jackie Robinson. Joe can trravel through time so he thinks it will be real easy to do his report. When he gets there Joe is a black boy not a white boy. So if you want to know what happens go and find this book and go read this book. I would recommend this book to any body who loves baseball, or any body who loves sports will love this book. This is why I would recommend this book to people is it has a lot of black history in this book. It has a very good detial of what Jackie Robinson went through and how they treated him and a lot other black people back long ago. This book also has a lot of facts about Jacked Rovinson. One fact is he liked to help out with the baby a lot. So as you can see what what I have told you about this book means you should go read this book then you go and buy this book and read it over and over again.

Title, Jackie and Me
Author, Dan Gutman 5-s


The book is about this boy who goes back in time. Him and his dad are like in love with baseball cads. So his dad buys him a brief case to put all the cards that he gets.

If you like baseball you would like this book i think because it is about baseball . Another good thing about it is that how Jackie Robinson was the first black man to play baseball. During the middle of the season the team does not think he should think he should play. So the kid comes back in time then he forgot the cards . So he had to go back intime but he had to stay for a while cause he admitted to being bat boy. Then he took the cards to game on accident and they were gone at the end of the game.

The book Jackie and Me is about baseball. I like the book because it's about baseball and Jackie Robinson is one of my favorite players. The kid in the book goes back in time when he finds a rookie card of jackie robinson. One thing that's bad is that Jackie gets picked on in baseball. However when the team sees how good Jackie really is, they start to be nice. The reason he's on the team is he was drafted and the first person to play in the major league baseball as a black person. The book Jackie and Me is for an adults, teens, girls and boys. I enjoyed the book except it was hard to read how he got picked on.

Jackie & Me is a great book, combining sports with going back in time. I like how the pictures look like photographs. Like I said, DAN GUTMAN, YOU ROCK!!

Dan Gutman's appealing sports time travel series continues with "Jackie and Me." This time around, young Joe Stoshack goes to meet Jackie Robinson and his breaking of baseball's "color line" in 1947. The book does not back away from the ugly words, the prejudice, or the violence faced by many Black Americans at that time, especially by the courageous Robinson.

As usual, Gutman explores the social and historical context (I would have enjoyed even more details about Brooklyn; Gutman references three books for further reading), and he supplants the text with photos, newspaper reproductions, stats, and a note to the reader separating the book's facts from fiction. The book is well-researched, although there are some anti-Robinson quotes from players and other racist material that I wish Gutman had explicitly documented: It's not that I doubt that they happened, but a direct cite to source material would enable the reader to know if the words and behaviors are described verbatim or are there as (approximate) illustrations of what Robinson faced. Gutman wisely notes in his "To the Reader" that "Robinson's first year in the big leagues was even more difficult than described here." Another fine job by Gutman; I recommend this highly to mature young readers who can handle and/or talk about the ugly and violent racism described here.

Jackie and Me was a fantastic book. It mixes fact and fiction with a funky twist. I have to say Dan Gutman had to have a great imagination to write this master peice. It was great when Joe(the main chacacter)went back in time and saw he was black the book said he froze like an ice cube. It was really funny when Joe called Ebbets feild the baseball church. This book is filled with amazing detail and photographs so you can whats happening better if you get a chance to read this book take it.

Jackie and Me is a very different kind of child's fiction book. When Joe goes back through time with his cards you just think this is going to be a good book. This book is very good because there is baseball and there is history. That's all I need in a book. How about you?

When Jackie's class is assigned to write a report on a famous African-American, Joe Stoshack finds an interesting way to do this. He travels back through time to MEET Jackie Robinson. Joe also had gotten suspended from Little League baseball. During his time with Jackie, he learns a vauluble lesson. (and how to play baseball a little better) Joe has an enemy in the present and the past. His enemy in the past can be more dangerous than his one in the present. I encourage everyone to read this book even if you don't like reading.