Traces the childhood dream of Japanese-American baseball pioneer Kenichi Zenimura of playing professionally and his family's struggles in a World War II internment camp where he introduces baseball to raise hope.
Marissa Moss has written more than 70 children's books. She is the bestselling author/illustrator of the Amelia's Notebook series and illustrator of The Eye That Never Sleeps, America's Tea Parties, Barbed Wire Baseball, and Nurse, Soldier, Spy. Her awards include two California Book Awards, a Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Award Honor, an NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, an ALA Notable, and the Cowan Writers' Prize. She lives in Berkeley, California.
Yuko Shimizu is an illustrator and comics artist best known for the cover of the graphic-novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: The Dream Hunters. She lives in New York City.
