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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball, and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women's basketball game, earning national attention and putting women's basketball on the map.
22) Diana Taurasi
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando Diana Taurasi era una niña, el baloncesto femenino profesional no existía en los EE. UU. Diana sabía que tenía talento y trabajó duro para crear oportunidades para ella y otras atletas femeninas. Ganó campeonatos en la escuela secundaria y la universidad antes de convertirse en profesional con la Phoenix Mercury de la WNBA y ganando cinco medallas de oro olímpicas, inspirando a muchas chicas a seguir sus pasos atléticos". --Página...
Author
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Louisa loves to play basketball, but in 1974, her Portland, Oregon high school only offers a team for boys. An encounter with feminist Gloria Steinem teaches her about Title IX -- the law that bans discrimination based on gender -- so she asks her principal to start a girls team. Little does she know that she'll soon be viciously targeted by male coaches at her school, lied to by the school board, and fall in love -- a couple of times -- as she fights...
Author
Series
Girl got game volume 6
Publisher
Tokyopop Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Kyo Aizawa is a teenage girl who just wants to live a normal teenage life, but her father, who used to be a basketball player and wanted to make it to the NBA, is now determined to live his dreams through his daughter. She finds out that her father registered her as a boy and cooked up a scheme so that she would play on the boys basketball team and become the basketball player he always wanted to be.
25) A map to the sun
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ren almost forgot there was a time she didnt know Luna. Even though theyve only been friends since the beginning of summer, theyve been inseparable. But the most important friendship in Rens life is cut short when Luna suddenly moves back to Oahu and stops answering Rens messages. Years go by. And then Luna returns to LA, acting like nothing happened. Shes ready to step back into their friendship, but Ren isnt. Ren would rather pretend Luna never...
Author
Publisher
Midway, An Agate Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
""Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality --or at least the closest that one high school girls' basketball team ever came to it. In 1975, freshman Melissa Isaacson-- along with a group of other girls who d spent summers with their noses pressed against the fences...
Author
Publisher
It Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"From the sports phenomenon - called by ESPN the world's most famous female basketball player - and youth role model comes an inspirational memoir exploring the highs and lows of her life, the bullying she endured, and the assumptions she has redefined, as well as her passion for the game, and empowering readers to be true to themselves and love who they are on the inside and out"--Provided by publisher.
28) Coming home
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist -- a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested...
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