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c2011., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.
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c2011., HARPERTEEN Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust.
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2012., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: Historical FIC Sharenow Edition: 1st pbk. ed. Genre: Historical Availability:5 of 6 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Karl Stern has never been in a synagogue or practiced religion, but to everyone around him he is a Jew. Longing to prove his worth, he starts taking boxing lessons from champion boxer and German national hero Max Schmeling. As a skilled cartoonist, he's never before had an interest in boxing, but as Max's apprentice, Karl finds both his boxing skills and art flourishing. When Nazi violence against the Jews heightens, he must balance his dream of becoming a great boxer with his obligation to protect his family.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Joe Louis was born in a sharecropper's shack in Alabama and raised in a Detroit tenement. Max Schmeling grew up in poverty in Hamburg, Germany. For both boys, boxing was a way out and a way up. Little did they know someday they would face each other in a pair of battles that would capture the imagination of the world. In America, Joe was a symbol of hope to blacks yearning to participate in the American dream. In Germany, Max was made to symbolize the superiority of the Aryan race. The two men climbed through the ropes with the weight of their countries on their shoulders—and only one would leave victorious.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: ". . . recount[s] the politically and racially charged rivalry between African-American boxing champion Joe Louis and white German boxer Max Schmeling, which grew between their 1936 and 1938 matches. Tracing both men's careers from inception until they hung up their gloves, the authors illuminate how emblematic each was to his country while exploring the social issues of the day"--Publisher's description.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: HI-INT 920 FLO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Joe Louis was born in a sharecropper's shack in Alabama and raised in a Detroit tenement. Max Schmeling grew up in poverty in Hamburg, Germany. For both boys, boxing was a way out and a way up. Little did they know someday they would face each other in a pair of battles that would capture the imagination of the world. In America, Joe was a symbol of hope to blacks yearning to participate in the American dream. In Germany, Max was made to symbolize the superiority of the Aryan race. The two men climbed through the ropes with the weight of their countries on their shoulders—and only one would leave victorious.
