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Black Star (The Door of No Return series)

by Kwame Alexander

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Paperback · 384 pages Little, Brown Books for Young Readers · 2025

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Black Star (The Door of No Return series)

A Coretta Scott King Honor Book

The thrilling follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller The Door of No Return stars Kofi’s granddaughter, Charley, who’s set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball but who soon has to contend with the tensions about to boil over in her segregated town.

You can’t protect her from knowing. The truth is all we have.
 
12-year old Charley Cuffey is many things: a granddaughter, a best friend, and probably the best pitcher in all of Lee’s Mill. Set on becoming the first female pitcher to play professional ball, Charley doesn't need reminders from her best friend Cool Willie Green to know that she has lofty dreams for a Black girl in the American South.
 
Even so, Nana Kofi's thrilling stories about courageous ancestors and epic journeys make it impossible not to dream big. She knows he has so many more to tell, but according to her parents, she isn't old enough to know about certain things like what happened to Booker Preston that one night in Great Bridge and why she can never play on the brand-new real deal baseball field on the other side of town.
 
When Charley challenges a neighborhood bully to a game at the church picnic, she knows she can win, even with her ragtag team. But when the picnic spills over onto their ball field, she makes a fateful decision.
 
A child cannot protect herself if she does not know her history, and Charley's choice brings consequences she never could have imagined.
 
In this riveting follow up to The Door of No Return, set during the turbulent segregation era, and the beginning of The Great Migration, Kwame Alexander weaves a spellbinding story of struggle, determination, and the unflappable faith of an American family.

The book, Black Star (The Door of No Return series) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780316442695 in Paperback by Kwame Alexander may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.

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Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Author
Kwame Alexander
Format
Paperback
Published
Sep 9, 2025
ISBN-13
9780316442695
ISBN-10
0316442690
Pages
384
Carton quantity
40 copies
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