A High Five for Glenn Burke
Phil Bildner
Sixth grader Silas Walker prepares a school presentation about Glenn Burke, the Black gay Major League Baseball player associated with the high five. As Silas learns about Burke’s life in the 1970s, the project becomes connected to his own first steps toward coming out as gay. He tells his best friend Zoey, while worrying about keeping this part of himself from his baseball teammates and wondering whether they already suspect something.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 2 editions from 2 organizations.
