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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the Instagram account @TheUnsungHeroines, a celebration of the pioneering, forgotten female athletes of the twentieth century that features rarely seen photos and new interviews with past and present gamechangers including Abby Wambach and Cari Champion"--
Author
Publisher
Button Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A collection of fascinating biographical stories of 50 highly successful sportswomen, from boxing superstar Nicola Adams to record-breaking yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur and fearless mountain biker Rachel Atherton. All over the world, there are female athletes breaking barriers, pushing limits and achieving amazing things, but where did their journeys begin? And what challenges did they have to overcome to get where they are today? As well as giving...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"What is the allure of the extreme? Who are the women who seek out and excel at sports outside the conventional, such as cave diving, wingsuit flying, or Formula 1 racing? This collection of female adventure dynamos is as fascinating as it is empowering. Thrill Seekers introduces readers to a diverse and fascinating selection of women whose determination, grit, and courage have propelled each of them into a life far from the sidelines. Each chapter...
Author
Series
Wild River volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Montana Banks has returned to Wild River, Alaska, for a fresh start. Adventure has always been in her blood, but while an injury leaves her unable to participate in her favorite extreme sports, Montana settles for teaching base-jumping classes at her friend's tour company. Settling in has been almost too easy: a great job, her family's acceptance and her own apartment--right next door to straitlaced police officer Eddie Sanders. Eddie has always had...
5) 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
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Profiles thirty-five women athletes who broke barriers, set records and promoted important social change includes entries for stars ranging from Serena Williams and Billie Jean King to Manon Rhéaume and Kristi Yamaguchi.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Describes the exceptional life and times of LPGA founder Babe Didrikson, the Texas woman who achieved All-American status in basketball, won gold medals in track and field in the 1932 Olympics, and became the first woman to play against men in a PGA tournament.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Avery
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A revolutionary approach to helping women athletes achieve success in sports and in life. In this game-changing guide, sports dietitian Pam Nisevich Bede explains how women are unique with regards to training, nutrition, and performance, on the road, court, field, or track. Instead of outdated concepts and male-centric research that never spoke to your specific needs, here you will find a framework that will maximize performance, no matter your sport,...
Author
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...
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
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Momentum, the nonfiction imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Recipient of Sports Illustrated's Inspiration of the Year Award and one of Time's 100 Most Influential People (2018) "Who is going to tell these little girls that what was done to them matters? That they are seen and valued, that they are not alone and they are not unprotected?" Rachael Denhollander's voice was heard around the world when she spoke out to end the most shocking scandal in US gymnastics history. The first victim to publicly accuse...
Author
Series
Fury series (John Farris) volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Description
Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. With her talent and his coaching the spirited young fighter rises through the ranks of women's boxing, the pair form a touching bond in the process.
Author
Publisher
Edge of Sports
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lottie Dod was a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dod won Wimbledon five times, and did so for the first time in 1887, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. After she grew bored with competitive tennis, she moved on to and excelled in myriad other sports: she became a leading ice skater and tobogganist, a mountaineer, an endurance bicyclist, a hockey player, a British...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Running for her life could leave her breathless. A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Aloa Snow knows what it means to be down and out. Once highly respected, she's now blackballed, in debt, and dealing with the echoes of an eating disorder. Until she gets one more shot to prove that she has what it takes--with a story some would die for...After the body of a promising young athlete, Hayley Poole, is recovered in the Nevada desert, authorities...
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