Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City

A group of young basketball players holds up an older man in a suit. The player to the left is holding an orange basketball.

Phillip Hoose

Traces the inspirational story of the Crispus Attucks High School Tigers basketball team and how they broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana to become state champions.

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2020-2021

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SC Young Adult Book Award

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