Safe At Home

Safe At Home by Robinson, Sharon. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780439671972.

A high-interest sports novel from the author of Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America. Ten-year-old Elijiah Breeze, a.k.a. Jumper, is having the hardest summer of his life. His father has just died; his mother has moved them from the suburbs to New York Citys Harlem area; and he has to spend the summer at baseball camp. Basketball is Jumpers game. He doesnt know anything about baseball, or city life, or how to keep going without his dad. Jumper struggles in his new life, but hes encouraged by the support of his coach and his grandmas wisdom. He finds out it is possible to start over in a new place with new people . . . and still hold on to whats important from his past.