Combining two of the most potent influences on youth culture — music and sports — ALL-BALL WORLD offers children a fresh perspective on critical issues in familiar language, giving them playful, relatable examples of how to navigate a world that changes every millisecond, how to respectfully connect with friends and family, how to love the...
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Michael “Boogaloo Shrimp” Chambers aka Turbo Documentary He taught MJ to moonwalk. The first hip hop artist to go the Whitehouse. What do popping, locking, waving, ticking, and breaking have in common? Before 1984, not much. But, when a 17-year-old dance phenomenon named Boogaloo Shrimp danced with a broom on a Los Angeles street in a film called Breakin’,...
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As a fifteen-year-old boy in World War II, Yona Goldrich and his younger brother escaped the clutches of Hitler’s Nazi regime with their lives — but without their family. Yona’s potent memories of the Holocaust that destroyed his parents, his older brother, and his people are wrenching and unforgettable…and his infectious spirit is undeniably...
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My name is Michael “Boogaloo Shrimp” Chambers also known as “Turbo”. I’ve had an amazing career as a dancer and actor .I have starred in major videos and television shows. I’ve also acted in films, one where I turned a broom into a superstar in the movie “Breakin” and I walked on a ceiling in “Electric...
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The main characters in ALL-BALL WORLD are members of the ALL-BALL BAND, each represented as a ball from a major sport: “Babe” is the sax-wailing baseball, “Patches” the soccer ball is the lead singer, “Strike” is the bowling ball guitarist, “Pig” (as in pigskin, of course) is the football drummer, “Dr. Tee” is the golf ball on keyboards, the...
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The remarkable untold story of J. Edgar Hoover’s African-American lineage as told by the woman who uncovered it — a woman who also happens to be his African-American cousin.
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