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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Twilight Whispers and “a first-rate storyteller” (The Boston Globe) comes a masterful family portrait, filled with thought-provoking insights into how letting go can be the hardest thing to do—and the greatest expression of love.
Molly and Robin Snow are sisters in the prime of life. So when Molly receives the news that Robin has suffered a massive...
Molly and Robin Snow are sisters in the prime of life. So when Molly receives the news that Robin has suffered a massive...
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"From an Olympic medalist runner and the record-holder in the women's marathon and half-marathon, a lyrical, inspirational memoir on how harnessing the power of the mind can unlock hidden potential Deena Kastor was a star youth runner with tremendous promise, yet her career almost ended after college. Her competitive method--run as hard as possible, all the time--brought her to the brink of burnout and fostered a frustration and negativity that threatened...
5) Roberta Gibb
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Get to know the first woman to ever run in the Boston Marathon in this fascinating nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series of biographies about people “you should meet!” Meet Roberta Gibb. In 1966, Roberta was the first woman ever to run in the Boston Marathon. When Roberta applied for the event she received a letter saying women were not physically able to run marathons and therefore her request was denied. Roberta decided to run anyway,...
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Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Because Bobbi Gibb is a girl, she's not allowed to run on her school's track team. But after school, no one can stop her--and she's free to run endless miles to her heart's content. She is told no yet again when she tries to enter the Boston Marathon in 1966, because the officials claim that it's a man's race and that women are just not capable of running such a long distance. So what does Bobbi do? She bravely sets out to prove the naysayers wrong...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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[2023]
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English
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"World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and career, and her trailblazing battle to compete on her own terms. Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya’s win was quickly overshadowed...
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2023.
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English
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"Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes “Women’s sports have needed a manifesto for a very long time, and with Lauren Fleshman’s Good for a Girl we finally have one.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and David and Goliath “Good for a Girl is simultaneously...
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Mountaineers Books
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[2019]
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English
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"WIFE AND MOTHER. Teacher and musician. Marathoner and rock climber. At 66, Dierdre Wolownick became the oldest woman to climb El Capitan in Yosemit--and in [this book], she shares her intimate journey, revealing how her climbing achievement reflects a broader story of courage and persistence. Dierdre grew up underthe watchful eyes of a domineering mother and realized early on that her parents' plans for her future weren't what she wanted for herself....
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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In the tradition of Wild and H Is for Hawk, an Outside magazine writer tells her story of fathers and daughters, grief and renewal, adventure and obsession, and the power of running to change your life. Im running to forget, and to remember. For more than a decade, Katie Arnold chased adventure around the world, reporting on extreme athletes who performed outlandish featswalking high lines a thousand feet off the ground without a harness, or running...
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2023.
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English
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"In this unvarnished and affecting memoir, Olympian Kara Goucher reveals her experience of living through and speaking out about one of the biggest scandals in running. Kara Goucher grew up with Olympic dreams. She excelled at running from a young age and was offered a Nike sponsorship deal when she graduated from college. Then in 2004, she was invited to join a secretive, lavishly funded new team, dubbed the Nike Oregon Project. Coached by distance...
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Melville House
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing monthsof unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes's symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"The inspiring and irresistible true story of the women who broke barriers and finish-line ribbons in pursuit of Olympic Gold When Betty Robinson assumed the starting position at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, she was participating in what was only her fourth-ever organized track meet. She crossed the finish line as a gold medalist and the fastest woman in the world. This improbable athletic phenom was an ordinary high school student, discovered...
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"An unlikely convert to distance running finds her way through grief and into the untold history of women and running. Thirty-year-old Catriona Menzies-Pike defined herself in many ways: voracious reader, pub crawler, feminist, backpacker, and, since her parents' deaths a decade earlier, orphan. "Runner" was nowhere near the list. Yet when she began training for a half marathon on a whim, she found herself an instant convert. Soon she realized that...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Describes how after winning the 1928 Olympics, Betty Robinson survived a plane crash and disabling injuries that she overcame to win the gold medal again during the 1936 Olympics.
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Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Kathrine Switzer changed the world of running. This narrative biography follows Kathrine from running laps as a girl in her backyard to becoming the first woman to run the Boston Marathon with official race numbers in 1967. Her inspirational true story is for anyone willing to challenge the rules. The compelling collage art adds to the kinetic action of the story. With tension and heart, this biography has the influential power to get readers into...
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Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Profiles Wilma Rudolph, who overcame polio to become a runner, the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals, and the founder of a group that helps poor children to do better in school and learn sports.
20) I am a promise
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Black Sheep / Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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An inspiring picture book account celebrating the indomitable spirit of Jamaican six-time Olympic medal winner Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce traces her childhood in a disadvantaged inner-city community, her development as a young athlete and the events surrounding her first Olympic gold medal.
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