# Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos

**Author:** Nathalie Alonso
**Grade range:** Grades 2–5
**Age range:** 7–11
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 44
**Genre:** Picture Book
**ISBN-13:** `9781635928129`
**ISBN-10:** `1635928125`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/call-me-roberto
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A picture-book biography of Roberto Clemente, the Puerto Rican baseball star who became one of the game's greatest players and a champion for Latino representation in the major leagues. Nathalie Alonso and illustrator Rudy Gutiérrez tell his story of talent, pride, and dignity. Selected for the 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (grades 3-5), chosen each year by the Oklahoma Library Association.

## Themes

- biography
- baseball
- perseverance

## Where this book is assigned

### Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)

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