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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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The gymnast relates how her faith and family saw her through several challenges, beginning from her childhood in foster care, and shares the professional journey that led to her earning a spot on the 2016 Olympic team.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The author and illustrator of Kid Presidents have reteamed to share 20 true tales from the childhoods of famous athletes. From Babe Ruth (so incorrigible that his parents put him in reform school at age 7) to Muhammad Ali (who learned to fight at age 12 after a thief stole his bicycle), Kid Athletes is packed with inspirational stories from the world of sports. Billie Jean King rose from modest circumstances to win 39 Grand Slam championships; race...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles top players from the 2016 basketball season, including LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Chris Paul, and LaMarcus Aldridge, providing interesting childhood facts, along with college and professional career highlights for each.
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Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Traces the achievements of some of the top women track and field athletes, including Wilma Rudolph, Grete Waitz, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Florence Griffith Joyner, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
The champion Paralympic swimmer, born in Russia with a condition that would result in the amputation of both legs below her knee, presents a photographic memoir of the life-changing moments that helped shape who she is today.
7) Maniac Magee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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He came into this world named Jeffrey Lionel Magee, but when his parents died and his life changed, so did his name. And Maniac Magee became a legend.
After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Describes the life of the sharecroppers' son who became an Olympic legend and challenged Hitler's dream of Aryan superiority.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Athlete after athlete in this book found discipline, hope, and inspiration on the playing field, rising above their circumstances. Filled with first-hand accounts from stars who exemplify the idea of enduring at all costs, Rising Above will serve as a must-read source of inspiration for kids and sports fans of all ages"--
11) Skate girls
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Meet some terrific girl skateboarders.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Sue Macy offers a fresh and timely account of women in sports in the 1920s, and how their determination, talent, and defiance in the face of criticism promoted women's rights, redefined femininity, and changed the course of history. Macy offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into the journey of women's rights through the lens of women in sports during the pivotal decade of the 1920s. With elegant prose, poignant wit, and fascinating...
Author
Series
Incredible worlds of Wally McDoogle volume 26
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Enabled by an overactive imagination to make his every wish come true, Wally becomes the world's greatest soccer player, but he soon realizes that God's plans for himself and the world may be better than his own.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A biography of the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal, from her childhood in segregated Albany, Georgia, in the 1930s, through her recognition at the 1996 Olympics as one of the hundred best athletes in Olympic history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the legendary boxer who began his career as Cassius Clay, discussing his prowess in the ring, his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War, and his life after boxing.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Babe Didrikson Zaharias had one driving goal: to become the greatest athlete who ever lived. And she made good on that promise with a meteoric rise to famed basketball player, Olympic medalist, and top female golfer. But there was more to Babe than just sports. Noted novelists and sportswriters Rich and Sandra Wallace expose the many controversies surrounding this famous female athlete—her upbringing, personality, marriage, and even her early...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kobe Bryant was just an eighteen-year-old high-school basketball player when he decided to enter the National Basketball Association's draft. Though he was the thirteenth overall pick by the Charlotte Hornets, he would never play a single game for them. Instead, Kobe was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he would spend his entire twenty-season career, winning five championships and numerous awards.
20) Simone Biles
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Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Complemented by high-detail black-and-white comic art, a middle grade portrait of Olympics gold medalist Simone Biles details her early life as a foster child, her record-breaking achievements and her work as a #MeToo activist."--
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