# I Never Had It Made

**Author:** Jackie Robinson
**Grade range:** Grades 4–8
**First published:** 1972
**Page count:** 275
**Genre:** African American baseball players
**ISBN-13:** `9780880014199`
**ISBN-10:** `0880014199`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/i-never-had-it-made
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

In relating his life, Robinson reveals the struggles of a Black athlete in the white-dominated world of American sports

## Where this book is assigned

### Coretta Scott King Author Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1973 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1973 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1973 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1973 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade — [source: Coretta Scott King Author Award (American Library Association), via Wikipedia — 1973 winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King_Award)

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