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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Profiles the lives of women athletes who have left their mark on their respective sports and the athletic field including Margaret Ives Abbott, Wilma Rudolph, Kristi Yamaguchi, Venus and Serena Williams, and Simone Biles.
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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...
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Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Sharing her battle with bulimia, which cut short her military service, a former female Marine platoon leader recalls her struggles on the playing field, the battlefield and inside her own soul as she overcame the hardships in her life and redefined what it means to be strong and what perfect really is.
5) 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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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A sports journalist relates the story of Ivy League freshman and track star Maddy Holleran, who seemingly had it all and succeeded at everything she tried, but who secretly grappled with mental illness before taking her own life during the spring semester.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"On the last night of the 2021 CrossFit Games, ten thousand fans watched in horror as Brooke Wells' elbow dislocated under the weight of a 190-pound barbell. This is the extraordinary story of what happened next: How Wells pulled off a highly improbable comeback that transformed her mentally and physically into one of the fittest women in the world. In Resilient, Wells provides a refreshingly honest, authentic account of how she overcame fear, self-doubt,...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 1982, Julie Moss ran the Ironman triathlon for her college senior research project. Her idea was quirky, even crazy; only a handful of hardcore, highly trained enthusiasts competed in the little-known, 140.6-mile combination of swimming, cycling, and running. Julie brought no experience or appreciable training beyond running two marathons. She did bring a latent willpower that, the world soon found out, wouldn't be denied. What happened next changed...
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