We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

Year Published 2008

Word Count 16,560

• Text Complexity
• Lexile Level: 900L
• ATOS Reading Level: 5.9

• AR Quiz Numbers
• 119912

• Curricular Area
• History
• Physical Education
• Social Studies

• Subject Headings
• Negro leagues
• African American baseball players
• African American baseball players--Juvenile literature
• Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction
• Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports & Recreation | Baseball & Softball
• History
• United States
• Baseball--United States--History--Juvenile literature
• Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American
• Baseball
• Negro leagues--History--Juvenile literature

• Lists With This Book
• ELA Text Exemplars, 4-5
• Nonfiction, 6-8
• Baseball Stories
• Black History Secondary
• Civil Rights Teaching
• 5th EL Module 3: Athlete Leaders of...
• Wit & Wisdom Core Texts, Grade 5
• Black Lives Matter: Diversity
• Black Lives Matter: Black Villages
• BLM: Unapologetically Black
• Wit and Wisdom Core Texts
• Standards Titles