"At the age of thirty, Jael Ealey Richardson traveled with her father-former CFL quarterback Chuck Ealey-for the first time to a small town in southern Ohio for his fortieth high school reunion. Knowing very little about her father's past, Richardson was searching for the story behind her father's move from the projects of Portsmouth, Ohio to Canada's professional football league in the early 1970s. At the railroad tracks where her father first learned to throw with stones, Jael begins an unexpected journey into her family's past. In this engaging father-daughter memoir, Richardson records some of her father's never-told stories. As she begins unravelling the story of her father's like, she begins to compare her own childhood growing up in Canada. along with her father's US civil rights era upbringing. Along the way, she also discovers the real reason-despite his athletic accomplishments-her father was never drafted into the National Football League." (Chapters-Indigo) Author will come in to speak to students, former Peel student; Artistic Director of FOLD-Festival of Literacy Diversity.

Please note that some of these novels contain explicit treatment of sexuality, drug culture, and violence. Teachers should always read material before suggesting it to students. Not all of these titles will be appropriate for all students in the class. .

Contains 5 books.