High Five for Glenn Burke author-Jen Calonita the Homo Sapiens Agenda and

the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy—about Nathan Bird

forty years later

Ofelia Castillo (a budding journalist)

Gray is worn out having to color in those giant elephants

where headstrong eleven-year-old Anya is a daughter of the only Jewish family in her village

High Five for Glenn Burke author-Jen Calonita the Homo Sapiens Agenda andWhen sixth grader Silas Wade does a school presentation on former Major Leaguer Glenn Burke, its more than just a report about the irrepressible inventor of the high five. Burke was a gay baseball player in the 1970sand for Silas, the presentation is his own first baby step toward revealing a truth about himself he's tired of hiding. Soon he tells his best friend, Zoey, but the longer he keeps his secret from his baseball teammates, the more he