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Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years before women's soccer became an Olympic sport and two decades before the formation of the WNBA, the '76 US women's basketball team laid the foundation for the incredible rise of women's sports in America at the youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels. Though they were unknowns from small schools such as Delta State, the University of Tennessee at Martin and John F. Kennedy College of Wahoo, Nebraska, at the time of the '76...
Series
Avant-Guards volume 2
Publisher
BOOM! Box, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Avant-Guards have been on a roll when it comes to their newly-formed basketball league, and Charlie has been getting more comfortable with her new teammates, but when they hit the end of their winning-streak, will these new friendships survive? As the Avant-Guards struggle to move forward, they'll soon learn just what it means to truly be a team--on the court and, most importantly, off the court, too."--Back cover
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.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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...
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