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This fascinating edition spotlights Magic Johnson as he confronts HIV and works as a spokesman against AIDS.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 4-7-- The life of a black athlete many believe to be the finest basketball player of his era. ``Magic'' seems an appropriate nickname for Johnson, as every team he's played on, from high school to the pros, has been amazingly successful. Couple his teams' successes with Johnson's quick and engaging smile and a fairly controversy-free off-court life, and you have a modern-day ``superstar.'' The book provides a fairly straightforward account of Johnson's life. Black-and-white photographs, garnered mainly from the wire services, are interspersed throughout the book. There are no appendixes of Johnson's statistics and teams' records. Mention of Johnson's personal and family life is made, keeping the biography focused on the person rather than just the athlete. This book updates Rich Levin's Magic Johnson: Court Magician (Children's, 1981). --Tom S. Hurlburt, Minneapolis Public Library . (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 5-8. The revised edition of Sports Great Magic Johnson [BKL Je 15 89] has been updated and expanded by the inclusion of a seventh chapter that discusses Johnson's HIV status, his November 1991 retirement from the Lakers, and his role in the fight against AIDS; there is no coverage of Johnson's playing on the Olympic "Dream Team" in Barcelona, something that occurred after the update went to press. Also added to the new edition is a page of career statistics. Whether replacement of the first edition is necessary is debatable: Johnson's life and career remain in flux, and there will be a need for further updating in the not-to-distant future. However, this remains a brisk account that evokes a sense of the man, and it also, along with the other volumes in the Sports Great series, will attract older reluctant readers. For other new titles, see the Series Roundup in this issue. ~--Sally Estes

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Author Jim Haskins was born in Demopolis, Alabama on September 19, 1941. He received a B.A. from Georgetown University in 1960, a B.S. from Alabama State University in 1962, and a M.A. from the University of New Mexico in 1963. After graduation, he became a special education teacher in a public school in Harlem. His first book, Diary of a Harlem School Teacher, was the result of his experience there. He taught at numerous colleges and universities before becoming an English professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville in 1977.

He wrote more than 100 books during his lifetime, ranging from counting books for children to biographies on Rosa Parks, Hank Aaron and Spike Lee. He won numerous awards for his work including the 1976 Coretta Scott King Award for The Story of Stevie Wonder, the 1984 Coretta Scott King Award for Lena Horne, the 1979 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Scott Joplin: The Man Who Made Ragtime; and the 1994 Washington Post Children's Book Guide Award. He also won the Carter G. Woodson Award for young adult non-fiction for Black Music in America; The March on Washington; and Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put "Black" in American History in 1989, 1994, and 2001, respectively. He died from complications of emphysema on July 6, 2005 at the age of 63.

(Bowker Author Biography)