Synopsis: "With amusing anecdotes and colorful quotes, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack, Jr., take the reader through the extraordinary history of the Negro Leagues, one of baseball's most moving and fascinating stories.

Synopsis: This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have…